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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
Exodus
LawDestroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAll the saints salute you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulLet us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSo Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahNow therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
Amos
Minor ProphetsThe men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
Genesis
LawAnd let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor the body is not one member, but many.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesSo the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
Nehemiah
HistoryHear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.
1 Kings
HistoryThey gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
Matthew
GospelsI am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTrust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryO Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
Daniel
Major ProphetsI was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.