And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he answered and said unto them, It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish.
Mark
GospelsAnd the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
2 Kings
HistoryThe word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,
Mark
GospelsAnd he took it, and did eat before them.
Luke
GospelsThen let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielBy swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAt the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesLet the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryWill he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
Job
Wisdom / JobThou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
Exodus
LawWhen thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonSo they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem: twelve cities with their villages.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThat chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosFor the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.