And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
Job
WisdomHe that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
Proverbs
WisdomSo the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielHast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
Job
WisdomAnd he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:
Genesis
Law / MosesThen the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Proverbs
WisdomJohn answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
Luke
GospelsAnd Ramoth with her suburbs, and Anem with her suburbs:
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThey bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
Job
Wisdom / JobWhen they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
Luke
GospelsWho is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
Exodus
LawOf Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
2 Samuel
HistoryWhen the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
John
Gospels / JohnWhere are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
2 Kings
HistoryMy zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
Luke
Gospels / LukeSo the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Genesis
LawThey that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Proverbs
WisdomBehold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.