Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAs I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
Genesis
LawThe depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
Exodus
Law / MosesA faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
Genesis
Law / MosesHe made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
Psalms
PoetryAnd nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
2 Chronicles
HistoryNeither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
Exodus
LawThe light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
2 Chronicles
HistoryI would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
Job
WisdomBut even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:
Joshua
HistoryThen opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
Luke
GospelsWherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:
Luke
GospelsFor this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThe land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahYe shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?