For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying,
Acts
History / LukeAnd I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHe hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
Judges
HistoryKnow therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Daniel
Major ProphetsIf there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Genesis
LawThat whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Genesis
LawAnd thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
Leviticus
Law / MosesI am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
Jonah
Minor ProphetsLead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
Psalms
PoetryHe that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.