When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
John
Gospels / JohnThou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesGreat peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah.
Judges
History / SamuelHe taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Job
WisdomTherefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonI will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
Genesis
LawAnd thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar.
Judges
HistoryThe LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTo whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahDo ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSeeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
John
GospelsNeither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
Matthew
GospelsIshmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the men of war.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWith the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.