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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And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
Genesis
LawAnd they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
Judges
History / SamuelNaked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIsrael is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaWho verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterNow therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanA good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
Job
WisdomWhy art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
Genesis
Law / MosesFrom thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,
Numbers
Law / MosesSo Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSeek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
Genesis
LawAnd he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
2 Kings
HistoryBut his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.
Mark
GospelsHe sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
Job
Wisdom / JobWho, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
Acts
History / LukeIf her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.