But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,
Genesis
LawAnd if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
Job
Wisdom / JobHe will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFrom Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages:
Joshua
HistoryWe have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
Nehemiah
HistoryNow in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesHave I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
Numbers
Law / MosesTo shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Psalms
PoetryThus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraRepent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
Acts
History / LukeYe shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelI will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
Job
WisdomTherefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
Nehemiah
HistoryJesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
John
GospelsAnd they all forsook him, and fled.
Mark
GospelsThus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThey say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
Psalms
PoetryWhosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
Luke
Gospels / LukeThat thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD'S.
Exodus
LawWoe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!