Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes.
John
Gospels / JohnFor the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
Joshua
HistoryAnd that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBecause they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
Deuteronomy
LawBut he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
1 Peter
General EpistlesThus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut Sarai was barren; she had no child.
Genesis
LawAnd he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
Luke
GospelsAnd Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.
2 Samuel
HistoryBut he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
Numbers
LawBut beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
Matthew
GospelsAnd if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and one.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBut the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.