The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
Psalms
PoetryBut as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBehold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahTo the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
Psalms
PoetryBut Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahShall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.
Mark
Gospels / MarkNow consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThese were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.
Acts
History / LukeThat thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
Job
Wisdom / JobBoast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesFor I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Job
WisdomThen Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsLet as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesIt cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
Job
WisdomAs I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,