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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The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
1 Samuel
HistoryAs the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
Judges
HistoryAnd the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWhen Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
John
GospelsYet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThese also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahDoth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesWhich my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWe have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
Judges
History / SamuelFor all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
2 Samuel
HistoryFor we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesIf he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
Joshua
HistoryThou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)