Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.
Genesis
LawThat they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
Psalms
PoetryThe beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
Exodus
Law / MosesWherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
LawThen came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
John
Gospels / JohnBut he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielTherefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanTherefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD.
Numbers
LawHe clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
2 Kings
HistoryFor he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThis is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.