It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
2 Samuel
HistoryIn the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
Revelation
ApocalypticThen Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.
Leviticus
Law / MosesWho leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Proverbs
WisdomAnd on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSeek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
Joshua
HistoryMy tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsGod understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
Job
WisdomTherefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomMy people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.