And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelI am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesWho answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
Job
WisdomFor I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
Matthew
GospelsAnd the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraI am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Psalms
PoetryEnvy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Proverbs
WisdomBut every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
Genesis
LawAnd Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:
Joshua
HistoryThe earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahLeah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
Exodus
LawThe words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?