And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsExamine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,
Luke
GospelsNow as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.
Exodus
LawDay unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
Psalms
PoetryFor she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsSpeak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBehold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
1 Kings
HistoryThey give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThese be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanI make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
Ezra
HistoryAnd they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not?
Luke
GospelsWhosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
1 John
General EpistlesBut turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Psalms
PoetryJudah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:
1 Kings
HistorySo that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
Ezra
History / EzraRivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
Psalms
PoetryAfter that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.