And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIn transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSaying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesYou only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosOh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Job
Wisdom / JobYea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
Job
WisdomFor the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Luke
GospelsAlso the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHe hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
Job
WisdomAnd when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
Luke
GospelsNevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
2 Kings
HistoryThou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
Psalms
PoetryFear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
Exodus
LawAnd Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaTherefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.