It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.
Judges
HistoryI know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
Exodus
LawWhom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.
Acts
History / LukeI know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
Revelation
ApocalypticBlessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
1 Samuel
HistoryYe know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
2 Kings
HistoryThou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.