For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
Joshua
HistoryMoreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosSo the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
Judges
HistoryThus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahA fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryIf the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonA gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.
1 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIf thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
Exodus
Law / MosesNow therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:
Judges
HistoryThat thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
Esther
History / MordecaiSo the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all things that befell them: