I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielTheir soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
Psalms
PoetryBut it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
Nehemiah
HistoryHe brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
Numbers
Law / MosesI shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Numbers
LawBut and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.
Luke
GospelsAnd as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
2 Samuel
HistoryTherefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
Nehemiah
HistoryLet the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsYe Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThese were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraTo set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
Job
WisdomAnd Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAs the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.