And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsDefend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
Job
Wisdom / JobHonour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulDepart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAs it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering.
Leviticus
Law / MosesYea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
Job
WisdomAnd join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.
Mark
GospelsAnd he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people were come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them.
Judges
HistoryAnd he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
Exodus
Law / MosesHusbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesThere is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.