Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWhich long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Job
WisdomThou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.
Mark
GospelsSurely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAll that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahOf the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
Numbers
LawFor as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
Exodus
LawNow the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahI became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
Psalms
PoetryTrust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsFor there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
Titus
Pauline EpistlesAnd as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
Acts
HistoryThe princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job
WisdomPraise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.
Psalms
PoetryThou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.