And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsFor the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem.
Acts
HistoryAnd Simon and they that were with him followed after him.
Mark
GospelsBut when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor 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 EpistlesMadmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
Psalms
PoetrySo that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
Psalms
PoetryRemember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryTherefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John
GospelsAnd Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
Numbers
LawAnd, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.