Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
Job
WisdomThy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
Psalms
PoetryThy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Job
WisdomWhen thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTo such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
Acts
History / LukeIn their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIn their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBehold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
Job
WisdomNow Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahWho hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
Job
Wisdom / JobNow the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
Genesis
Law / MosesI have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
Proverbs
WisdomThus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
Leviticus
Law / MosesHim God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;
Acts
History / LukeUnstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.