For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIt shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
Leviticus
LawAnd they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesLift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
John
GospelsAnd when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
Exodus
Law / MosesYea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielShe crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFrom above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus
LawPilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.
John
Gospels / JohnMen, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.
Acts
HistoryThus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSo every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel
HistoryPut not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:
Proverbs
WisdomHowbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.
John
Gospels / JohnBehold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBut thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house: