For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
Acts
History / LukeFor they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary?
Judges
HistoryAnd wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsYet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNot every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
John
GospelsJesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
John
GospelsOr speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Job
WisdomAnd the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
Ruth
HistoryVerily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
Luke
GospelsBe ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThey made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahOur soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd at Hazar-shual, and at Beer-sheba, and in the villages thereof,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahNow therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:
Judges
HistoryAnd he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.