Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
Genesis
LawShe crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonGather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
Deuteronomy
LawSave that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHe took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
Hosea
Minor ProphetsTeach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.
Genesis
Law / MosesTherefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
2 Kings
HistoryHis strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
Job
WisdomAnd Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnBut we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesSo that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThat thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.
1 Kings
HistoryThey slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.