He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWoe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
Judges
HistoryUnderstand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
Psalms
PoetryAnd thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
Exodus
LawSo mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
Acts
HistoryBlessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
Psalms
PoetryThen said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
Esther
HistoryAnd lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBlow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSon of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBehold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded.
Leviticus
Law / MosesSmite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?
Genesis
Law / MosesThen said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
John
GospelsAnd your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.