Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
Judges
History / SamuelThen shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiFor if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
Matthew
GospelsAnd it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country.
Joshua
HistoryYet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiBehold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahJoshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
Joshua
History / JoshuaNow therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahNow while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made enquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate,
Acts
HistoryWhich knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
Acts
History / LukeBut he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
Genesis
LawI am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelHear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosHe bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.
Acts
History / LukeThe LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumThen Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.
Judges
HistorySo David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.