Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
Job
WisdomFor it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
1 Kings
HistoryTherefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
Matthew
GospelsFor a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Hebrews
General EpistlesFor their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
Psalms
PoetryThe sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Proverbs
WisdomAlso Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
2 Kings
HistoryThou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.
Genesis
Law / MosesThey part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
Nehemiah
HistoryThen shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
Luke
GospelsAnd when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with James and John.
Mark
Gospels / MarkIn the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
Deuteronomy
LawThe likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
Deuteronomy
LawNow ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTherefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelHusbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.