The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Luke
GospelsAs he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Matthew
GospelsIt is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
Psalms
PoetryThen was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.
Psalms
PoetryBut whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
1 John
General EpistlesBut the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMy vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
Exodus
LawPreserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
Psalms
PoetryYet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
Esther
HistoryAnd when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThey slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersGo, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
Numbers
LawHe restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.
Exodus
LawThen Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielFor with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.