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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
Psalms
PoetryBe it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth-lehem:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
Genesis
LawAnd it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.
1 Chronicles
HistoryLet all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOne kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.
Numbers
LawAnd as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
Acts
HistoryI will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
Genesis
Law / MosesOf Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.
Esther
HistoryBut let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesSaying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?
Matthew
GospelsAnd when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNeither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus
Law / MosesTo be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
Luke
GospelsHaving predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.