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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.
Numbers
LawThe lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Job
WisdomAnd he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
Luke
GospelsThe LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
Psalms
PoetryThe people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.
Judges
HistorySo ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
Judges
HistoryKnowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsRejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
Exodus
LawAnd in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
Genesis
LawAnd there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnMine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThen said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonA day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelNeither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.