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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?
2 Chronicles
HistoryO that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
Numbers
LawA prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Proverbs
WisdomWhat shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
Genesis
LawAnd Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesMy tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
Proverbs
WisdomJudah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFor the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Proverbs
WisdomO that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
Job
WisdomFolly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
Leviticus
Law / MosesWe are all one man's sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
Genesis
LawBut let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
James
General Epistles / JamesBut that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesSo that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?