No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then Job answered and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
Acts
History / LukeAnd I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLet them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
Psalms
PoetryEven the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.
Leviticus
Law / MosesI said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
John
Gospels / JohnBe in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
1 Chronicles
History / Ezra(For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)
Acts
HistoryAnd they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.
Exodus
LawHe that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsUpon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
Acts
History / LukeThus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,
Matthew
GospelsAnd Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings.
Exodus
Law / MosesKnow now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the LORD hath done that which he spake by his servant Elijah.
2 Kings
HistoryLet thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Job
WisdomAnd David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: