When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSo he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
Judges
History / SamuelThe LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
Mark
GospelsCounsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
Matthew
GospelsAnd Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
Genesis
Law / MosesAll the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesGod hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
Acts
HistorySee, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.
2 Samuel
HistoryThen said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahArise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is our's, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?
1 Kings
HistoryThou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
Deuteronomy
LawBut among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers
LawAnd the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
John
GospelsThou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs,
Joshua
History / JoshuaHelp, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSon of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.