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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
Deuteronomy
LawThen said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.
John
GospelsFor nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Mark
GospelsWho are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhich was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThey are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahMoreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
Genesis
LawAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD.
Exodus
LawAnd Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?
John
GospelsBecause the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
2 Chronicles
HistoryLet their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThese ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTake heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
Exodus
LawLo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,
Job
WisdomNow it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.