Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
Genesis
Law / MosesBehold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSo the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
Judges
HistoryNow therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul's daughter loved him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelStand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
Luke
GospelsSo Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.
Joshua
HistoryBecause they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewDestroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.
Exodus
Law / MosesThou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAll they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.
Numbers
LawAnd delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
2 Peter
General EpistlesHow long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Job
WisdomThen I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
Leviticus
LawIf he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.