In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
Lamentations
Major ProphetsSeeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
Acts
HistoryAnd the house of Joseph, they also went up against Beth-el: and the LORD was with them.
Judges
HistoryI am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
Mark
GospelsBless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
Job
Wisdom / JobNevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulLord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
1 Samuel
HistoryHis parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:
Leviticus
LawThou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
Job
WisdomMeats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.
Numbers
Law / MosesBrethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesSaying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.
Acts
HistoryFor the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
Exodus
LawAnd before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.
Genesis
LawThe sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.