The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
Genesis
Law / MosesThy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
Psalms
PoetryBut thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
Deuteronomy
LawDuke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHe that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMoreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen the chief captain took him by the hand, and went with him aside privately, and asked him, What is that thou hast to tell me?
Acts
HistoryNow these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Revelation
ApocalypticBut as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
Revelation
ApocalypticThe LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnLet them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Psalms
PoetryAnd she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
LawAnd the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsDavid therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaWherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: