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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterThou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahSo he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
Judges
HistoryThe LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAnd the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army?
Judges
History / SamuelLet all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
Joshua
HistoryThou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house:
Leviticus
LawThou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWoe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
Psalms
PoetryDeclare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAt the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.
Exodus
Law / MosesThey have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.
Judges
HistoryAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahTherefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.