When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much sope, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsNeither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Acts
History / LukeFor, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
Leviticus
LawAnd the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
2 Samuel
HistoryTherefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewGo and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
2 Samuel
HistoryThen said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
John
GospelsThy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhen I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYe 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 ProphetsBut ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.