Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterO the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMy vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonBut if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSay unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
Psalms
PoetryWere not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
Joshua
History / JoshuaNow in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
Ezra
History / EzraFor if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterHast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Job
WisdomAnd unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
Genesis
LawNow a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
Job
WisdomAll the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesNeither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesFor these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
Acts
HistoryAnd the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
Psalms
PoetryThe kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.