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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they laid their hands on him, and took him.
Mark
GospelsFor thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIt was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSurely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNow after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
Mark
GospelsIn righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWhom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Acts
History / LukeAs soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him.
1 Samuel
HistoryHave ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhich shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Job
WisdomNow about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
Acts
HistoryTherefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahWhy withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
Numbers
LawAnd they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.
Ezra
HistoryNow for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesProviding for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Beth-car.
1 Samuel
HistoryBlessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
Mark
GospelsAnd he said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.