It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.
Exodus
LawThen said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsNow Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me?
John
Gospels / JohnTherefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWhen thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahJesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Matthew
GospelsAnd David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahShe is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
Job
Wisdom / JobFor his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.
Acts
History / LukeThen the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.
Acts
HistoryFor he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
Luke
GospelsFor the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
1 Kings
HistoryThen will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.
Joshua
History / JoshuaPour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.