The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
Mark
GospelsAnd he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
Mark
GospelsSo speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
James
General Epistles / JamesI waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHer filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
1 Kings
HistoryBut I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.
Judges
HistoryWhich we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersGet thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
1 Kings
HistoryLest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Proverbs
WisdomHowbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:
1 Chronicles
HistoryWherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
Psalms
PoetryNow therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Genesis
Law / MosesThey encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
Psalms
PoetryI behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBehold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.