But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryThe Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
Joshua
History / JoshuaWhen I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
Genesis
LawThe cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.
Luke
GospelsAnd when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIf I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Psalms
PoetryI Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,
Luke
GospelsJesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.
John
Gospels / JohnSo the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.
Esther
HistoryI will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Genesis
LawThe eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
Job
WisdomThe things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
Job
WisdomBut the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?