The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
Joshua
History / JoshuaBut Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
2 Samuel
HistoryFrom whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
James
General EpistlesAnd the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTwo women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Luke
GospelsThey shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsIt is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAll this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.
Esther
HistoryAnd this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSo that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
Ezra
HistoryShall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIf thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
Exodus
Law / MosesI speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
John
GospelsNow Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
Job
WisdomAnd it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
Genesis
LawAnd it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
Genesis
LawAnd Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.