And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
Judges
History / SamuelTherefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterFor I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
Numbers
LawAs soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
Genesis
Law / MosesDeliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
Genesis
Law / MosesTherefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice,
Luke
GospelsAnd another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
Luke
GospelsStand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
John
GospelsI will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
Psalms
PoetryNow concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulA man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewI will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.