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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWe have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawNow for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John
GospelsThe voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,
Acts
HistoryRejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.
Judges
HistoryAs saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
1 Samuel
HistoryNow when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
Genesis
LawAnd thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Genesis
LawAnd there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
Acts
History / LukeAnd David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Job
WisdomBehold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsNow therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shethar-boznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the river, be ye far from thence:
Ezra
HistoryFor how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Genesis
LawTo be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.