That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Job
WisdomAnd Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWhen pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Proverbs
WisdomIf I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Job
WisdomThen Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
Numbers
LawYe shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
Deuteronomy
LawThough the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
Law / MosesGive us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBe not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd many believed on him there.
John
Gospels / JohnWoe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukVanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonNow therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to their father's house.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
Exodus
LawTherefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsI am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Psalms
PoetryA thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.