Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
Proverbs
WisdomThou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIn these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
John
GospelsCry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsThe singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahHow can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Deuteronomy
LawAnd David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.
1 Samuel
HistoryMake me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
Psalms
PoetryEven as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Jude
General Epistles / JudeTake heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Job
WisdomIn the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahJoram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAmong all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
Judges
HistoryThe sixth to Bukkiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
Exodus
LawAnd it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Acts
HistoryA son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiWhat manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come?