And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Genesis
LawJesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.
1 Samuel
HistoryThey shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTheir feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:
Exodus
Law / MosesHear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
Genesis
LawAnd Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.
2 Kings
HistoryWhile he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFaithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.
Judges
History / SamuelI will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Jude
General Epistles / JudeHe is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.
Exodus
LawAnd the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
Genesis
LawWhat? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.
Leviticus
LawThe children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and eight.
Nehemiah
HistoryBless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.