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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThey turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Job
WisdomWhat mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
Deuteronomy
LawFor the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Luke
GospelsNow the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
Genesis
LawHe hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,
Acts
HistoryIt shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.
Acts
HistoryO LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
Psalms
PoetryThen shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTo make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
Leviticus
LawThou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
Nehemiah
HistoryI also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBehold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIs not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
Job
WisdomAnd he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
Genesis
Law / MosesHe shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Job
WisdomTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: