Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?
1 Chronicles
History / EzraUnto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
Job
WisdomCall together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWas then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Matthew
GospelsThis is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
John
GospelsSimon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
John
Gospels / JohnYet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersUpon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSet thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFor the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThis they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
John
Gospels / JohnShould he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Job
Wisdom / JobHe hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.
Acts
HistoryThat ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesThe Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar: