And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
Psalms
PoetryTo the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHe that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Proverbs
WisdomEvery one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.
Exodus
LawThis is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.
Numbers
LawThe sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
2 Samuel
HistoryHow can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Deuteronomy
LawLet the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
Psalms
PoetryI have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
Psalms
PoetryAnd for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:
Exodus
Law / MosesThey ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsTherefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
Mark
GospelsFor all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
Judges
History / SamuelGive unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOut of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
Judges
HistoryThe sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.