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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,
Ezra
History / EzraHe taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
Job
WisdomLet my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Psalms
PoetryIf his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.
Leviticus
LawBut in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.
Deuteronomy
LawI thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
Judges
HistoryThat they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Titus
Pauline EpistlesAnd the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen the disciples went away again unto their own home.
John
GospelsBut meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulShammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,
2 Samuel
HistoryOf Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Numbers
LawLet the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.
Psalms
PoetryI am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahLearn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWhy do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Job
WisdomAnd round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
Revelation
ApocalypticHowbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
2 Samuel
HistoryWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
John
Gospels / JohnIf ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.