And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job
WisdomI will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryAnd others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
Hebrews
General EpistlesWhile I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIt is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Proverbs
WisdomLest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
Hebrews
General EpistlesIn the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
2 Samuel
HistoryI bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.
Luke
Gospels / LukePilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNow unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
Jude
General EpistlesWho is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus
LawAnd there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.
Judges
HistoryTherefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsGet wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWoe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;