And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
2 Samuel
HistoryTake heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
Deuteronomy
LawBut every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWith three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house:
Ezra
HistoryThey compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
Psalms
PoetrySurely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThen shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the LORD God of Israel.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:
Numbers
Law / MosesI said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewTherefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielJesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
John
GospelsAnd they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
Leviticus
LawAnd if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
Exodus
LawFor wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsShe will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly: