The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.
1 Kings
HistoryFor wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
Proverbs
WisdomWith him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
Job
WisdomThou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
Psalms
PoetryAnd within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon.
Numbers
LawO LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.
Luke
GospelsEvery tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAll the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWhosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.
Numbers
LawThe woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
Genesis
LawWill he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?
Luke
Gospels / LukeThou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.