And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
1 Kings
HistoryThou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
Deuteronomy
LawThey shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesArise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.
Numbers
LawAnd David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThis spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.
John
GospelsAnd I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,
Ezra
HistoryUnto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
Revelation
ApocalypticThe LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Exodus
LawAnd he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
Numbers
Law / MosesWhich commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
John
Gospels(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
Deuteronomy
LawThis is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the LORD for his separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.