As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.
Esther
History / MordecaiI thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulI call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
John
Gospels / JohnThen remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
Acts
HistoryAnd your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
Numbers
LawSalt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
Mark
GospelsYe stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
Job
WisdomFifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
Genesis
Law / MosesNot that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
1 Kings
HistoryFor I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
John
Gospels / JohnNow the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying,
Luke
GospelsAnd he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Genesis
LawArab, and Dumah, and Eshean,
Joshua
HistorySo Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.
Job
WisdomSo Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTake the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
Numbers
LawMen do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;