Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahEven all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Numbers
LawBut we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHer cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBlessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
Luke
GospelsAre they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
Deuteronomy
LawO LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukAnd they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.
Genesis
Law / MosesThy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
Numbers
LawAnd he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHowbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
Matthew
GospelsThe righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWhen he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.
John
GospelsWhen thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahMoreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWho is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThe living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahYea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
Joel
Minor ProphetsBlessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.