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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Job
Wisdom / JobThough ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosConcerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Ezra
HistoryFor her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSeeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And next unto him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah.
Nehemiah
HistoryJesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Matthew
GospelsThe way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Proverbs
WisdomThen did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading plague: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.
Leviticus
Law / MosesO God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
Psalms
PoetryThe stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
Psalms
PoetryHe that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he.
Proverbs
WisdomBlessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Psalms
PoetryJudas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
John
Gospels / JohnBut the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThe children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.
Ezra
History / EzraGrace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIf the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.