Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
Judges
HistoryNeither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
Genesis
LawSo Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis
LawHappy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
Genesis
LawBehold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
Acts
History / LukeAnd all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWe gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsBehold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnI know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.