Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
Leviticus
LawThen they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.
1 Samuel
HistoryMine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Psalms
PoetryWhen thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
1 Kings
HistoryFor that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
James
General EpistlesAnd Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?
Mark
Gospels / MarkShall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:
Acts
History / LukeAnd Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelEither three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanShall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
Psalms
PoetryAnd there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus
LawThey chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Judges
HistoryAnd the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.