When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahO our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWhy askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said.
John
GospelsAnd when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family.
Judges
HistorySaid he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
Genesis
LawRebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
Numbers
LawAnd Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
Luke
GospelsAnd there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.
2 Samuel
HistoryBetter is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonYe lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
James
General Epistles / JamesExamine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesCast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomIt is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Ezra
HistoryAnd they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.
Luke
Gospels / LukeMoreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
James
General EpistlesAnd out of the tribe of Asher; Mashal with her suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThat if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: