But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Acts
HistoryAnd Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBut Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
1 Samuel
HistoryTheir eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi,
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.
Joshua
HistoryFor by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.
Joshua
History / JoshuaYea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahMary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.
John
GospelsBut Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
Matthew
GospelsAnd Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
Genesis
LawAnd he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king's table.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
Genesis
Law / MosesMen do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonIt is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.