The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.
2 Kings
HistoryIt is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,
2 Samuel
HistoryJesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
John
GospelsAnd he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
Judges
History / SamuelHear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.
Ruth
HistoryThey that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;
Ezra
History / EzraAnd it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahO LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHowbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAlso Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
Esther
HistoryAnd in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielTherefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBlessed are the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahTo hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
Genesis
Law / MosesSon of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off.