They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHow much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Job
WisdomHer husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the sons of Onam were, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai; Nadab, and Abishur.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanMy root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
Job
WisdomHe asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
Judges
History / SamuelOut of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Job
WisdomWhen they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
John
Gospels / JohnBehold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,
2 Chronicles
HistoryWherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
Acts
HistoryAnd Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you.
Judges
HistoryBring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.