But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Matthew
GospelsEvery way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
Proverbs
WisdomThen Job answered the LORD, and said,
Job
WisdomNone devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus
Law / MosesWoe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Elienai, and Zilthai, and Eliel,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesIn the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
2 Chronicles
HistoryOnly the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
1 Kings
HistoryWherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBehold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
Revelation
ApocalypticFor this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
Psalms
PoetryThen said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:
Leviticus
LawAnd thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:
Exodus
Law / MosesFor even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBehold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.
Joshua
History / JoshuaHe hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.