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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
1 Kings
HistoryThus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAll the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
Esther
HistoryThey cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahTherefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahThese are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
Genesis
LawAnd their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsHe said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
1 Kings
HistoryBut Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraI opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
Luke
GospelsBut of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
Joshua
HistoryBut Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
Genesis
LawO thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.