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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And 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.
Judges
HistoryAnd I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
Proverbs
WisdomThey set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?
Luke
GospelsAnd Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSee, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Luke
GospelsAnd Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Psalms
PoetryArt thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulI think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews:
Acts
History / LukeThou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
Ezra
History / EzraThou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
Job
WisdomI made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
Psalms
PoetryAnd John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.