And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Genesis
LawFor, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownLove not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John
General EpistlesFor if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
Genesis
LawBehold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?
2 Chronicles
HistoryIntreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.
Exodus
LawWhen pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahLet Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.
Mark
GospelsThey that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
Matthew
GospelsThe LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownSo they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.