A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsMine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
Psalms
PoetryAnd they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
Acts
History / LukeThe king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
2 Kings
HistoryBut woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Luke
Gospels / LukeI have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Numbers
LawOr hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deuteronomy
LawAnd when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
Mark
Gospels / MarkSo those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe LORD spake also unto me again, saying,
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
Job
Wisdom / JobYe know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
Genesis
Law / MosesTurn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
James
General EpistlesWickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Psalms
PoetryO Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.