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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Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaBut he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
Job
Wisdom / JobBecause he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
Job
WisdomAnd I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosMake a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
Obadiah
Minor Prophets / ObadiahAlso, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsIn one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
Exodus
LawAll the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they hear the words of thy mouth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
Exodus
LawBut to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThere is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.