And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBehold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Luke
Gospels / LukeTo them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesBut thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThey say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
John
GospelsAnd it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
John
Gospels / JohnRob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Proverbs
WisdomThen said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahNeither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsNow therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
Joshua
HistoryShall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahEphraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsTherefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.