What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:
Acts
HistoryAnd he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the LORD said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIt is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonNevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he must needs go through Samaria.
John
GospelsAnd he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.
Genesis
Law / MosesThou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
Deuteronomy
LawCan a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
Job
Wisdom / JobShammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanDoth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Numbers
LawMoreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;
1 Kings
HistoryOver against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.
Exodus
LawThe eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
Job
WisdomThen the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
Genesis
LawMy son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonEver learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.