Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAs I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
Luke
GospelsAgain, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
2 Samuel
HistoryWhen thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Revelation
ApocalypticHath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
Luke
GospelsNow there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.
Judges
HistoryAnd then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:
Mark
Gospels / MarkCursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
Deuteronomy
LawTherefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
Psalms
PoetryAnd unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
Deuteronomy
LawShall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNow the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
Numbers
Law / MosesBehold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.