Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
Deuteronomy
LawThere shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Joshua
HistoryI have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsHereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnHeaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
Acts
HistoryThey are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken unto her.
2 Samuel
HistoryCasting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHer adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
Psalms
PoetryBut to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesHe was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesEvery bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.
Leviticus
LawBut if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
John
GospelsBut the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.