Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
Genesis
Law / MosesBut I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
Psalms
PoetryOn that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.
Esther
HistoryIn the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIn one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.
John
GospelsAnd these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraNo servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Luke
GospelsThou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHe that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWhen the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelRemember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
Psalms
PoetryAnd from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
Exodus
LawSo that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
Job
WisdomI will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.