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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up.
2 Kings
HistoryThus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHow he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
Matthew
GospelsFor mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
2 Samuel
HistoryWhich of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
John
GospelsFor except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryJesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
John
GospelsAnd one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
Genesis
Law / MosesA people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThey that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThere is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosLest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
Genesis
LawAll the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they hear the words of thy mouth.