We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Job
Wisdom / JobRemove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
Psalms
PoetryAnd you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesBlessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?
Judges
History / SamuelEvery valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsYet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWho are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBut the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
Deuteronomy
LawThe floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsIs not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
Psalms
PoetryHe hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
Acts
HistoryYe have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
Deuteronomy
LawSharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
Job
WisdomAnswer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.