It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahOur inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahOnly in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
Exodus
LawAnd Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.
Exodus
LawFor what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesSo David brought not the ark home to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
1 Chronicles
HistoryTo bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Mark
GospelsLet the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryBut the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.
Ezra
HistoryTo bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.
Esther
HistoryIn the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewA man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomFor the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesMoreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of God.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAll nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
Psalms
PoetryAnd ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;