And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahRehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
Ezra
HistoryHe will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
Job
WisdomHearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen believed they his words; they sang his praise.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulDo ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Matthew
GospelsI neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
Proverbs
WisdomThe sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
Psalms
PoetryAnd there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnDamascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
Judges
History / SamuelThou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
Deuteronomy
LawThen I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of their's. And they drank, and were merry with him.
Genesis
LawAnd John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsRemove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
Numbers
LawAnd they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick.
Luke
GospelsAnd it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhen Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;