A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraTherefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsI am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWas it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
1 Kings
HistoryWe be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
Genesis
LawLest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
Genesis
Law / MosesThey are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
Proverbs
WisdomAnd they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.
John
GospelsAnd God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Genesis
LawVerily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewOf the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahIs there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonInstead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsPut away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Proverbs
WisdomAttend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
Psalms
PoetryThou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Genesis
LawBehold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.