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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode.
John
GospelsFor thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIn the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.
Joshua
HistoryThus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesDid not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Job
WisdomThe king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.
Joshua
History / JoshuaWhen saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
Matthew
GospelsThou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
Psalms
PoetryFor all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.
Luke
GospelsThine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThat he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.