A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Job
WisdomThey shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsBut they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
Numbers
Law / MosesWhich said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
Job
WisdomAnd Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
Judges
History / SamuelWith the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
Job
WisdomFor we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThrough faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Hebrews
General EpistlesThat by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
Hebrews
General EpistlesFor enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and besought him that he would come into his house:
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Exodus
LawAnd he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
Genesis
Law / MosesThus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;
Luke
GospelsGive ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSend me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.