Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Job
WisdomThus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
Numbers
LawHolding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
Genesis
LawAnd if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAll these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsWhy do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulYet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesWith the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonUpon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
Acts
HistoryTherefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWe roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Matthew
GospelsAnd for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.
Exodus
Law / MosesSaul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.