Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
1 Kings
HistoryHeaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
Mark
GospelsWisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAmon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
2 Kings
HistoryFor what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And next to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFor by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Matthew
GospelsRejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAlso take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.
Joshua
HistoryAnd when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
John
GospelsSo Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
2 Kings
HistoryCanst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
Job
Wisdom / JobAlso in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThen his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
Judges
History / SamuelThe children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBehold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.