He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
Matthew
GospelsBut Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBefore the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsJesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these.
John
GospelsThy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAlexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesHe buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
Job
WisdomAnd God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
Genesis
Law / MosesFor we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
Genesis
LawAnd they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
Exodus
LawOur fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
Acts
HistoryYet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsNow these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.
Psalms
PoetryThe sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
John
GospelsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawThe LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: