For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.
2 Chronicles
HistoryYet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesHear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
Nehemiah
HistoryThen the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
Psalms
PoetryAnd his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahTherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBut the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.
Ezra
HistoryAnd he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesSo Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
1 Kings
HistoryShe obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Luke
GospelsAnd they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.
Judges
HistoryFor I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
Acts
HistoryHe that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
Judges
HistoryNow these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.