And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsDo ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Psalms
PoetryBut thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
Obadiah
Minor ProphetsWho can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job
WisdomMoab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
2 Samuel
HistoryIf that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsDeceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.
Acts
HistoryFor I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNeither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
Deuteronomy
LawEven there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
Exodus
Law / MosesWho shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesFor the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIt is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
Proverbs
WisdomLet them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
Psalms
PoetryNow I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahFor if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTo translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beer-sheba.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.