Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Job
Wisdom / JobThen we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
Esther
History / MordecaiFor their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Acts
HistoryAnd the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
Luke
GospelsBecause they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.
1 Kings
HistoryA slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNow in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.
Luke
Gospels / LukeOf the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
Micah
Minor ProphetsFear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAll these are the beginning of sorrows.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
Luke
GospelsAnd when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.
Luke
GospelsAnd it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBy faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.