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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
Acts
History / LukeTherefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar:
Leviticus
LawAnd the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
Exodus
LawIn God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
Psalms
PoetryMy desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsGreet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
Judges
HistoryAs the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
Job
Wisdom / JobThere is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThen the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
Numbers
Law / MosesYe shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.
John
GospelsThe remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.