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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
Leviticus
Law / MosesRecompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAt the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsJustice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Psalms
PoetryThou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
Acts
HistoryAnd thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
Exodus
LawAnd the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
Numbers
LawAnd the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
Matthew
GospelsBut there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.
2 Chronicles
History / Ezra(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterThere is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWho can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job
Wisdom / JobThough I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go.