It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1 Peter
General EpistlesThe kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
Psalms
PoetryThe seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelTherefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahDo we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBehold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:
Exodus
LawAnd it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
Luke
GospelsBenaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
Exodus
LawSo Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
Joshua
History / JoshuaIn those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThey were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:
Acts
History / LukeUriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Acts
HistoryWherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.
1 Samuel
HistoryIn the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
Leviticus
Law / MosesIn Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
Ezra
HistoryThen after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.