And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;
Psalms
PoetryThen Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Revelation
ApocalypticSurely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Psalms
PoetryThy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThey pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.
Acts
HistoryTherefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsElse, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
2 Samuel
HistoryNeither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTake ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnBut he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
Matthew
GospelsWherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesI have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Proverbs
WisdomIn that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWhiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.