And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsNow Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king.
1 Kings
HistoryBut after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.
Matthew
GospelsAnd they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
Genesis
LawAnd her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWhen I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Psalms
PoetryBut the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2 Kings
HistoryOf Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThis is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
Esther
HistoryAnd when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
Acts
HistoryAnd thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
Exodus
Law / MosesWill he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
Job
Wisdom / JobOf Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahNow the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
Luke
GospelsWhen Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.
John
Gospels / JohnTherefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
Numbers
LawMy tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: