A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHave respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWe see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
John
Gospels / JohnThus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsOh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
Job
Wisdom / JobThou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSeest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Proverbs
WisdomAaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
Numbers
Law / MosesAlso I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahTherefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBehold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: for they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.