Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
Mark
GospelsAnd he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulRob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.
Esther
History / MordecaiThey gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
Psalms
PoetryGive ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSo are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:
Mark
GospelsThis is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsDraw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
Psalms
PoetryThem take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.