I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAll these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
Genesis
Law / MosesGive glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd all that believed were together, and had all things common;
Acts
HistoryThen Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
Matthew
GospelsAnd also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
Exodus
Law / MosesThe lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsFor again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Ben-hadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
1 Samuel
History / SamuelYet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahEvery word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSurely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
Numbers
LawFor Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.