The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonFor thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
Obadiah
Minor Prophets / ObadiahAnd straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
Mark
GospelsThe LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFaithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Proverbs
WisdomSo there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
2 Chronicles
HistoryBehold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.
Acts
HistoryAnd turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHow goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
Numbers
Law / MosesThat they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
John
Gospels / JohnFor she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.
Mark
GospelsFor the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Romans
Pauline EpistlesNow they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
Acts
History / LukeEven so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.
2 Samuel
HistorySo he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSay, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielGather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.