Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
Judges
History / SamuelThe earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
Hebrews
General EpistlesBut thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
Job
WisdomThe ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away:
Leviticus
LawFor riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
Proverbs
WisdomWhiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Acts
History / LukeGive, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Luke
GospelsThe elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulShe is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
Job
Wisdom / JobNow about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.
Numbers
LawSo Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahMy heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Psalms
PoetryBut ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Job
Wisdom / JobNicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)
John
Gospels / JohnDid ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel
HistoryFrom thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.