But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Acts
History / LukeTwo wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
2 Samuel
HistoryConcerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
Numbers
Law / MosesThou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy
LawBut he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Matthew
GospelsThe sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Genesis
LawFor I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.
Exodus
Law / MosesBeing then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulO Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
Luke
GospelsGracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
Psalms
PoetryBy this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
Psalms
PoetryHast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Job
Wisdom / JobThe righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
Psalms
PoetryOur father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
Numbers
LawAnd these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:
Genesis
LawAnd I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.