And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Matthew
GospelsIf any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
John
Gospels / JohnI lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
Numbers
LawI will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
Psalms
PoetryJesus wept.
John
Gospels / JohnThen Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahTherefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsHe shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe sons of Kohath; Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
Law / MosesA foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Proverbs
WisdomIt is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people were come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
Leviticus
LawAnd the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.