It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
John
Gospels / JohnYe said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsAnd he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNow when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
Acts
History / LukeO thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?
Luke
GospelsAbstain from all appearance of evil.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMany there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesThere is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
Exodus
LawTheir priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAmon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate.
Exodus
LawThou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.
Luke
GospelsAnd he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.