It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd 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 if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
Exodus
LawJesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.
John
GospelsAnd let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
Esther
HistoryNow Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHe maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
Psalms
PoetryThen Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThere is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
Exodus
LawSo I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelO LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThey cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defence unto the people.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.
1 Kings
HistoryTurn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBeing grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Acts
HistoryBut if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;