Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles.
Acts
History / LukeAnd all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.
1 Chronicles
HistoryNeither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsMeats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThese things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.
Luke
GospelsAnd Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
Numbers
LawThe LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
Psalms
PoetryThis is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages.
Joshua
History / JoshuaOr whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
Numbers
LawAnd when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.
Acts
History / LukeHow much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Matthew
GospelsAnd every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
Numbers
LawThou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBecause of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
Matthew
GospelsTherefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.