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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering for the congregation.
Leviticus
LawBut that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD.
Joshua
History / JoshuaA wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Proverbs
WisdomThey say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.
John
GospelsThou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesHe left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
John
GospelsHe made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
Psalms
PoetryHe is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsGibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
Joshua
HistoryWhen he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee.
Judges
HistoryThey chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Judges
HistoryI delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersRemember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
Ezra
HistoryAnd the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
John
GospelsBehold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Revelation
ApocalypticFor he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.