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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
Genesis
LawThe wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
Ezra
HistoryYea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?
2 Samuel
HistoryIn the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsWhen those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
Judges
HistoryHe hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryThine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
Exodus
Law / MosesLet my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.
Psalms
PoetryAnd out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd he cried, saying, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
Luke
GospelsAnd when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?
Numbers
Law / MosesYea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.