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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
John
GospelsThy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonYe shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
Mark
GospelsIf I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
Acts
HistoryAnd why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
Matthew
GospelsHe that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesBut let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsNow the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
2 Samuel
HistoryHave mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
Esther
History / MordecaiThe wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAfter these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;
Acts
HistoryAnd I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelThou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.