Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryThen said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:
Esther
HistoryAnd they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
Genesis
LawHe that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.
Numbers
LawI know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThese be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
Genesis
LawAnd it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he said unto them, The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
Numbers
LawFor I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
2 Samuel
HistoryBehold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
James
General Epistles / JamesThou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
Matthew
GospelsMoab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.