My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
Mark
GospelsAnd now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
Haggai
Minor ProphetsAnd now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTherefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor the body is not one member, but many.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
James
General EpistlesThen Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSee that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:
Genesis
Law / MosesThus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLook down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesI cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOne kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers
LawIf they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSo stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahHear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Proverbs
WisdomPlead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaWhen they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him.