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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I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen Job answered and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobHear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSo when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSurely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahForasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
Acts
HistoryAnd I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
Numbers
Law / MosesWhich was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge,
Luke
GospelsCursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
Deuteronomy
LawHe that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
Luke
GospelsSo shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side.