And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
Psalms
PoetryAnd when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWhich perished at En-dor: they became as dung for the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBlessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.
1 Samuel
HistoryBehold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWhen they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
Luke
GospelsIs any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
James
General EpistlesAnd one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers
LawAnd this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick.
Numbers
LawAnd unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
1 Kings
HistorySing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
Psalms
PoetryI poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
Psalms
PoetryFor all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
Deuteronomy
LawThose that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNeither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWhat is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job
Wisdom / JobYe shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.