Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Psalms
PoetryFor if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
2 Peter
General EpistlesWherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
Judges
History / SamuelMy flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
Genesis
Law / MosesMark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
Luke
GospelsThose by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
Luke
GospelsAnd the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the king's face.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanI have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAgain, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushan-rishathaim.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe 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 / EzekielIt is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?