It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
John
GospelsAnd Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
Joshua
HistoryLet not then your good be evil spoken of:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
Genesis
LawAnd when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
Matthew
GospelsTherefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
Amos
Minor ProphetsNeither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTake that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests' garments.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahI call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Deuteronomy
LawSo it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
Job
WisdomAnd when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
Law / MosesSurely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
Psalms
PoetryFor the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
John
GospelsAlso in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
Leviticus
LawMark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.