Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job
WisdomAnd the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
1 Kings
HistoryNow the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
Mark
GospelsAnd Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
2 Peter
General EpistlesUnto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Acts
History / LukeThy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
Deuteronomy
LawRemember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.
Mark
GospelsNeither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAre they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTherefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIf thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Beth-lehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
Ezra
History / EzraWhom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulLet that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
Job
Wisdom / JobThey shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNeither give place to the devil.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
Numbers
LawI beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBut the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesNow therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
Joshua
HistoryAnd one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.