He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHe openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders,
Luke
GospelsThus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
Judges
HistoryAnd he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
Exodus
LawThe fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Proverbs
WisdomTherefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
Deuteronomy
LawA bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd Elienai, and Zilthai, and Eliel,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
Judges
HistoryThe LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesDeclare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.