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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsSo Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
Esther
HistoryO give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.
1 Samuel
HistoryEsther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.
Esther
History / MordecaiThen Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,
Ezra
HistorySaying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
Acts
History / LukeFor the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.
Genesis
LawFor they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesNow she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThen Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
Joshua
History / JoshuaHe hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.
Acts
HistoryBut I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnSo they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the LORD, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraMy lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.