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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:
Deuteronomy
LawSing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
Psalms
PoetryAnd he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.
Judges
HistoryBreach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
Leviticus
LawAnd they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNow there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
Luke
GospelsSo the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.
Esther
History / MordecaiHow shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
Judges
HistoryAnd great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers
LawAnd some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.
John
Gospels / JohnWeep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThem hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
Exodus
Law / MosesAs he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
Luke
Gospels / LukeSo Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
Judges
History / SamuelTherefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;