And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.
Mark
GospelsAnd he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
Numbers
Law / MosesThese are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
John
GospelsSeest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
James
General EpistlesThe fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
Genesis
LawBetter is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
Acts
HistoryAnd them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAnd when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.
Matthew
GospelsThey are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBe not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;
Mark
GospelsAnd he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
Genesis
LawThe seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelAnd Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.