Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?
Joshua
HistoryAnd he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
Judges
HistoryAnd it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
Nehemiah
HistoryFor indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Genesis
LawAnd Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThen these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
2 Kings
HistoryHearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSo he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
Exodus
Law / MosesEnter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAt the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielWhen the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
Psalms
PoetryWhich things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhat man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?