As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThat they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
1 Kings
HistoryThy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.
2 Samuel
HistoryWhich turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
Acts
History / LukeAhaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.
Leviticus
LawJohn bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
John
GospelsAnd the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
Revelation
ApocalypticI know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
John
GospelsWhom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHis breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
Job
WisdomDeliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersPaul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
Genesis
LawAnd when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people.
1 Chronicles
HistoryI will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThen the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.