Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
Joel
Minor ProphetsOver against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHe said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
Psalms
PoetryAt his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSo Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles
HistorySeeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
Job
WisdomBut the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Revelation
ApocalypticThe high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
Psalms
PoetryArise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
Genesis
Law / MosesJediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHe teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
Job
Wisdom / JobTherefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBehold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHe delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Genesis
LawFor there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.