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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIn the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.
Leviticus
LawThen enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
Genesis
Law / MosesAlexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesSurely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
Numbers
Law / MosesFor the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonNow therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:
Judges
History / SamuelAnd from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.
John
GospelsAnd they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHe scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
Job
Wisdom / JobHe that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHave ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTo understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAll her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsMoreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTherefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.