Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
Job
WisdomAnd ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish:
Numbers
LawAnd Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Genesis
Law / MosesThere they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThey have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahI will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahJudge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
John
GospelsAnd they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?
Judges
HistoryThen Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
Genesis
LawOf the sons of Pahath-moab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.
Ezra
History / EzraConsider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:
Numbers
Law / MosesThen saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
Matthew
GospelsLet the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
Psalms
PoetryEven as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
Revelation
ApocalypticCome against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhen a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Job
WisdomAnd when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he is unclean.
Leviticus
LawThou shalt have no other gods before me.