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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
Judges
History / SamuelThus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?
Judges
History / SamuelPraise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhy do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
Matthew
GospelsBe ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBehold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewYour words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd Remeth, and En-gannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez;
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
Acts
HistoryAnd straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
Mark
GospelsNow no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him.
John
GospelsAnd it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAll things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
John
GospelsAnd these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
Job
WisdomAnd they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Numbers
LawAnd white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
Revelation
ApocalypticBehold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.