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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWho did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterRemember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAccording as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.
1 Kings
HistoryFor the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThat ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Genesis
Law / MosesO fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
Joshua
HistoryMoreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
Mark
GospelsBehold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
Job
Wisdom / JobIf thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWoe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the ark of God remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house three months. And the LORD blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that he had.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
Ezra
History / EzraBut before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.
Luke
Gospels / LukeOnly let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesNow Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.