For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
Luke
GospelsWhile the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
Matthew
GospelsBut thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
Genesis
LawBut I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:
Amos
Minor ProphetsFor all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
2 Chronicles
HistoryClouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Psalms
PoetryBelieve me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
John
GospelsHear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahThou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesBehold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
Solomon's Song
PoetryFor he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomFor the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.
Joshua
HistoryThey have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Numbers
LawThe word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.