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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
Psalms
PoetryO my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe sons of Merari; Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzza his son,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaPersia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.
1 Chronicles
HistoryWho is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,
Psalms
PoetryBut the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.
Judges
HistoryAnd some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
Matthew
GospelsAnd they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsLet a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us.
Luke
GospelsSo went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
Job
WisdomAnd the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;
Matthew
GospelsAnd he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahManasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: