And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
1 Samuel
HistoryI said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!
Numbers
LawAnd when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
Matthew
GospelsMy days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof:
Luke
GospelsAnd when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraNotwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
Daniel
Major ProphetsSo that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
Ezra
History / EzraBut meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWhen your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnI have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsFor the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTherefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Job
Wisdom / JobWhen I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNo man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
John
GospelsCharity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD: