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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
Judges
HistoryThou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd sitting down they watched him there;
Matthew
GospelsFor this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBe ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsYet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAlso, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
John
Gospels / JohnHe shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHeaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
Luke
GospelsFor we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTeach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
Psalms
PoetryHe cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Job
WisdomI said in my haste, All men are liars.
Psalms
PoetryThus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAn inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.