For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
Job
Wisdom / JobI will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
Psalms
PoetryAnd surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
Genesis
LawThou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesI will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:
Numbers
LawThey shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms
PoetryBut the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Proverbs
WisdomIs it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
John
GospelsBehold 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 / MatthewBut king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
1 Kings
HistorySeek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the LORD'S anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThey meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.
Judges
HistoryThen shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
Psalms
PoetryRemember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;