Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
Matthew
GospelsHe reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnBut when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.
Acts
History / LukeBut what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesLet me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;
2 Kings
History / JeremiahEven the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD'S house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
Psalms
PoetryAnd her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
Acts
HistoryHowbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.
John
GospelsAnd there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIn that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHe asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
Psalms
PoetryThou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.