He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Genesis
LawBut I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHow goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
Numbers
Law / MosesThen all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
John
GospelsAnd the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?
Joshua
HistoryFor in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Acts
History / LukeAnd when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWhen Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
Nehemiah
HistoryHe preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
Job
WisdomThy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIn whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
Numbers
LawAll the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
Acts
History / LukeTruly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.
Acts
History / LukeSince the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
Matthew
GospelsWe hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.