In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Daniel
Major ProphetsLest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
Deuteronomy
LawI called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
Job
WisdomThe LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die.
Luke
GospelsThou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.
Numbers
LawAnd they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:
Acts
History / LukeAnd I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewOnly ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Deuteronomy
LawWherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
2 Peter
General EpistlesWhether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
Exodus
Law / MosesI have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Acts
HistoryThen David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIsrael also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
Psalms
PoetryAnd with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulO ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
Psalms
PoetryAnd Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis
LawAnd it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;