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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
Luke
GospelsMy sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
John
Gospels / JohnAnd if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
Exodus
LawTell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThe good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.
Numbers
LawAnd six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:
Exodus
Law / MosesFor the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
Deuteronomy
LawBut chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
Genesis
LawAll sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
Psalms
PoetryAnd others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Jude
General Epistles / JudeSo David waxed greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts was with him.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd all that believed were together, and had all things common;
Acts
History / LukeAnd if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed before the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.
1 Chronicles
HistoryTake the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.