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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
Job
WisdomRejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
Proverbs
WisdomTherefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiAgainst him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
2 Chronicles
HistorySubmit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterSend thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
Judges
HistoryThy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
Solomon's Song
PoetrySuch knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram;
Numbers
LawLet the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the king also and the people.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
Genesis
LawAnd if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
Genesis
Law / MosesIn all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?
2 Samuel
HistoryBring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsHow is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewYe know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAlso I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
Ezra
HistoryThe wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?