Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesYe offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiAnd there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
Genesis
Law / MosesA man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
Ezra
HistoryIt shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.
Genesis
LawTherefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Psalms
PoetryHe that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
1 John
General EpistlesAnd they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.
Esther
History / MordecaiThen hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
Luke
Gospels / LukeDid I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
Genesis
LawAnd the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahOpen ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBehold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.