For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThe Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
Judges
History / SamuelAnd said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?
Judges
History / SamuelAnd of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.
Ezra
HistoryRemove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAssemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelAnd having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe must increase, but I must decrease.
John
GospelsBut some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelFor the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
2 Chronicles
HistoryLikewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Jude
General EpistlesTurn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
Acts
History / LukeAnd the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.
Judges
HistoryAnd now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.
Ruth
History / SamuelLet the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahConcerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father: