If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThere is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsAnd being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
Hebrews
General EpistlesBut Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHe will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,
Esther
HistoryAnd afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:
Leviticus
LawTheir feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.
Acts
HistoryYet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
Leviticus
LawWhen he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulYe are they which have continued with me in my temptations.
Luke
Gospels / LukeOnly do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
Job
WisdomAnd it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.
Joshua
HistoryThese are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.