Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThis Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
Ezra
HistoryAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?
Joshua
HistoryDeclare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?
Judges
HistoryAnd David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perez-uzzah to this day.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanTherefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAt that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
John
GospelsWhen wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesBut he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
Daniel
Major ProphetsFor God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Genesis
LawAnd he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
Ruth
HistoryAnd Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.
Genesis
Law / MosesThou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.
Matthew
GospelsYet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Matthew
GospelsThat bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.