And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
Mark
Gospels / MarkI will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThis is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
2 Chronicles
HistoryHer prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahLikewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Jude
General EpistlesSo there was a division among the people because of him.
John
GospelsAnd that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesI rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
Psalms
PoetryThe sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
Deuteronomy
Law / Moses(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesThat your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHe that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
2 Kings
HistoryThese chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Genesis
LawThat they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.