And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
Exodus
Law / MosesNay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:
Genesis
LawAnd he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.
2 Kings
HistoryGod judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThat the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
Job
WisdomFor whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Leviticus
Law / MosesWhat shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesFor they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBlessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHumble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesO LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
Proverbs
WisdomMy 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
Poetry / David and othersAnd the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.