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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the LORD spake unto me, saying,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThat ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Genesis
Law / MosesHe trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Psalms
PoetryFor the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsYea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulThey draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWoe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIt is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
Matthew
GospelsEven they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Proverbs
WisdomBut when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:
Numbers
LawAnd it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
Matthew
GospelsO give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryA wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonCan two walk together, except they be agreed?
Amos
Minor ProphetsThat ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.
Joshua
HistoryAnd the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.