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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsFor the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.
Psalms
PoetryAnd this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
Ezra
History / EzraBut the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
Judges
History / SamuelWhen I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra
HistorySo they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.
Judges
HistoryNow all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielO Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesI should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Job
WisdomFor the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsMy son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
Proverbs
WisdomThere is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesTherefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNow a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
Esther
HistoryIt cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsNevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Psalms
PoetryAsk thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.