It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
Exodus
LawEgypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.
Genesis
LawAnd Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,
Joshua
HistoryBut when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
1 Kings
HistoryWhen thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSo then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
Acts
History / LukeAnd with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.
Exodus
LawAnd Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families.
Joshua
HistoryThe righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
Psalms
PoetryThe LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd there came a man from Baal-shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWho coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages: