And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
Esther
HistoryThou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
Deuteronomy
LawI chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
Job
Wisdom / JobNow therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
Exodus
Law / MosesTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Numbers
LawAnd they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Beth-lehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWe looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHowbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.
Numbers
LawA foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Job
WisdomAnd the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden.
Numbers
LawLittle children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
1 John
General EpistlesAnd they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
Matthew
GospelsO earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.