Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahMy heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Proverbs
WisdomConsider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
Psalms
PoetryFurthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.
1 Chronicles
HistoryWhosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,
Genesis
LawAnd he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhy hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.
Exodus
LawAnd he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.
Exodus
LawBecause he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
Job
WisdomPeace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
John
GospelsAnd Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBlessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
Psalms
PoetryYe shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesMake thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Micah
Minor ProphetsYet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.