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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
Mark
GospelsAnd, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias:
Luke
GospelsThou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
Psalms
PoetryThese were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsShalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job
WisdomAnd the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Luke
GospelsWhen they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
Psalms
PoetryMen groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
Job
Wisdom / JobWhereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
James
General Epistles / JamesThey gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife's name was Maachah:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Proverbs
WisdomWhereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
Acts
HistoryAnd they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahOf the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;