In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
Ruth
HistoryAnd it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Luke
GospelsAnd he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Luke
GospelsA good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
Joshua
HistoryThe former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
Acts
HistoryFor we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAll the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
Exodus
Law / MosesHe gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
Psalms
PoetryBut when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
Mark
Gospels / MarkSon of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
Revelation
ApocalypticNow after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
Judges
HistoryBut the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt: