For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD.
2 Samuel
HistoryHe that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahHave we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiAnd they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewLet them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWoe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahThen said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.
Numbers
LawEven to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
Luke
Gospels / LukeVaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
Ezra
History / EzraTherefore 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 Prophets / JeremiahSaying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him.
Acts
HistoryOnly unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesUnstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
Genesis
Law / MosesThey say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.