Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd Iphedeiah, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak;
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
1 Kings
HistoryHe sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWho humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!
Psalms
PoetryAnd when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelLet no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBehold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;
Genesis
LawHereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnThen these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.
Daniel
Major ProphetsBut they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAfter the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
Leviticus
LawFor our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAccording to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiHe mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnFor I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahNevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul.
Acts
HistoryTurn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.