Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
Mark
GospelsAnd took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
Exodus
LawAnd when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiAnd if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
Mark
GospelsAnd Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryKing Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.
Acts
HistoryAnd the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
Acts
History / LukeSo she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
Ruth
History / SamuelThe LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
Psalms
PoetryO Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIf I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsWhereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsWe have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.
Acts
HistoryAnd when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
1 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSo king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house.