I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.
2 Samuel
HistoryI have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor ProphetsWhoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryFor thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahPeace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
John
Gospels / JohnA wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
Psalms
PoetryBehold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
Exodus
Law / MosesLORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.
Psalms
PoetryThen went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
Judges
History / SamuelFor the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Joshua
HistoryAnd all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
Exodus
Law / MosesIn the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
Acts
History / LukeShall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Job
WisdomFor many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.
Mark
GospelsFor the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsThey have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus
LawAnd it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.