For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBlessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe sons of Simeon were, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
Genesis
LawAnd thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewTherefore David enquired again of God; and God said unto him, Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
1 Chronicles
HistoryOnly the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
Acts
History / LukeThat the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none.
John
GospelsThus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThat he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Exodus
LawAnd Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
Genesis
LawWherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Matthew
GospelsLet the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAgain he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHe hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
Luke
Gospels / LukeYe did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?