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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.
Exodus
LawAnd GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.
Acts
History / LukeAnd all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.
Joshua
History / JoshuaIf I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
Job
WisdomFor wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonWhen the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
Job
WisdomHolding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?
John
GospelsThat our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThat the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.
Judges
HistoryFor on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.
2 Kings
HistoryThe wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran.