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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
Exodus
Law / MosesHe that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Genesis
LawWhoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.
1 Kings
HistoryConsider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider it.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsThe earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThough it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
Job
WisdomAnd they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them.
Mark
GospelsAnd the sons of Bela were, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying.
Acts
History / LukeNeither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
Numbers
LawAnd straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment.
Mark
GospelsAnd there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.
Exodus
LawAnd he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.
Luke
GospelsAnd if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;