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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonArt thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
Nahum
Minor ProphetsConsider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
Psalms
PoetryThen said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
Judges
HistoryAnd Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
Luke
Gospels / LukeMoreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Mark
GospelsTherefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kir-heres.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMy lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah;
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
Genesis
LawWherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnFor nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Matthew
GospelsAnd all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.
Joshua
HistoryA fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
Proverbs
WisdomJohn answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;
Numbers
LawSee, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.
2 Samuel
HistoryNeither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThough Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsShe is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;