Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
Proverbs
WisdomThen said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
2 Kings
HistoryThe world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
John
GospelsThou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Deuteronomy
LawSurely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonCome now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
2 Chronicles
HistoryEven in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahPilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.
Luke
GospelsAnd they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.
Joshua
History / JoshuaWho hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
2 Kings
HistoryIn whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Job
WisdomThere be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnWhom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
1 Peter
General EpistlesWoe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.