And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day.
Esther
HistoryAnd thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesOh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Job
Wisdom / JobThus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?
Genesis
LawAnd I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.
Matthew
GospelsAnd thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
Judges
HistoryAnd he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
2 Kings
HistoryThe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesChildren's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHow goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
Numbers
Law / MosesLet not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.