For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
Acts
HistoryThen the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsKnow ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Psalms
PoetryWhich shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Job
WisdomThey are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaSo shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWherefore 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
HistoryAnd this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomMoreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielDaniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielTherefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
Job
WisdomThe LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
2 Kings
HistoryArt thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
Job
WisdomThen said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew
GospelsThen Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
Matthew
GospelsHe that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
John
GospelsIf I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesIt may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.