But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
Deuteronomy
LawVerily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
John
GospelsBut the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.
Joshua
HistoryBlow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
Joel
Minor ProphetsPardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
Numbers
LawPersecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
Acts
HistoryBut my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
Psalms
PoetryThen will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
Leviticus
LawI behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewGebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
Psalms
PoetryThey go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
John
GospelsBut if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:
Acts
HistoryThen shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukYet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
Judges
History / SamuelThen Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
Job
WisdomWhen the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.