He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
Judges
HistoryAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
Numbers
LawThey did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:
Psalms
PoetryA false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with her suburbs:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsA time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThe Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
Nehemiah
HistoryOnly that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
Judges
History / SamuelGreat peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
Psalms
PoetryBeloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
3 John
General EpistlesThou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd sixteen thousand persons;)
Numbers
Law / MosesWhat is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
Solomon's Song
PoetryThen Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.