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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFurthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.
1 Chronicles
History(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBoth riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThere is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
John
GospelsJesus wept.
John
Gospels / JohnIn thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThere are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulYea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.
Exodus
LawFor he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSo let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
Judges
HistoryThe people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
John
GospelsAnd after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
Numbers
Law / MosesI tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
Luke
Gospels / LukeNone eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
Psalms
PoetryAnd shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: