Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBehold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
Genesis
Law / MosesI was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
Matthew
GospelsAnd ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein:
Numbers
Law / MosesNevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:
Daniel
Major ProphetsWhen one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe fourth to Izri, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.
Judges
HistoryJesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
Luke
Gospels / LukeMy transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
Job
Wisdom / JobTo another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd at Hazar-shual, and at Beer-sheba, and in the villages thereof,
Nehemiah
HistoryAll ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBehold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahEven such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD.