The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:
1 Kings
HistorySpeaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThere was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings
HistoryHowl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
Exodus
LawAt the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersGo from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonYe have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
James
General Epistles / JamesNow therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
Ezra
History / EzraIf any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Titus
Pauline EpistlesAnd these were of the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIt cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Job
WisdomAnd he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
Leviticus
LawAnd he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
Deuteronomy
LawThey draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
Psalms
PoetryIn Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThat the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNow go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Matthew
GospelsAnd oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.