Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.
2 Chronicles
HistoryArt thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
John
GospelsFor if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
Job
Wisdom / JobThe elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
2 John
General Epistles / JohnThis our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:
Joshua
History / JoshuaWhere we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.
Acts
HistoryAnd Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
Acts
HistoryThese are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
2 John
General EpistlesSo now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Genesis
LawAnd he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
Exodus
Law / MosesTherefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis;
Acts
HistoryAnd Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Acts
HistoryAnd the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
1 Chronicles
HistoryForty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Genesis
LawLet people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Genesis
LawAnd Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead.