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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people will be wholly at thy commandment.
1 Chronicles
HistoryShall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete.
Acts
History / LukeAll unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnTherefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIn four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
Revelation
ApocalypticThe sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles
HistoryLet us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhich hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it.
Exodus
LawSo there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
Joshua
HistoryAnd said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:
Judges
HistoryAnd the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
Exodus
Law / MosesWoe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahUpon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
Job
WisdomBut as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,
Ezra
HistoryThe children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.
Exodus
LawMake haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.