For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males.
Ezra
HistoryAnd the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.
Mark
Gospels / MarkMy defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIn the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
Ezra
History / EzraWherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
2 Samuel
HistoryHowbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Matthew
GospelsThis witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulThese things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.
Exodus
Law / MosesDid I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
Job
WisdomAnd the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
Mark
GospelsAnd they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
Acts
History / LukeAnd thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.
1 Kings
HistoryHast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
2 Kings
HistoryHave all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.