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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomFor ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land;
Judges
HistoryTherefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
Genesis
Law / MosesBut let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
James
General EpistlesThere was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings
HistoryThen sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWhen he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
Judges
History / SamuelBut Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelOut of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the LORD'S.
Exodus
LawAnd 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 / JoshuaThus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsThe west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
Joshua
HistoryBlow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
Luke
GospelsSurely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
Mark
GospelsAnd ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahI know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.