When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd they passing by Mysia came down to Troas.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsAnd I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTo the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
Ezra
History / EzraAnd the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
Esther
History / MordecaiHer wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
Judges
History / SamuelBut I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosI must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
John
Gospels / JohnThen Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.
Numbers
LawAs for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHowbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsHell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonI say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?