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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd 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?
Nehemiah
HistorySpeak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.
1 Samuel
HistoryBy honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulI create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAlso thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:
Exodus
Law / MosesGo to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
James
General EpistlesO LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThese are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
Genesis
Law / MosesBabylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Genesis
LawWe will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be our's.
Numbers
LawHe lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.
Acts
History / LukeHim that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThey were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.