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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahBut afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonIf a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
Leviticus
LawOh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
Job
WisdomWherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThat which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.
Genesis
Law / MosesI will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
2 Kings
HistoryThe seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryEvery purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;
Numbers
Law / MosesI will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
Genesis
LawThen Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
Acts
History / LukeI will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
Job
WisdomFor he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.