Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsA man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said unto him, I have given unto thy master's son all that pertained to Saul and to all his house.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:
Exodus
LawThey prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWho in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Acts
HistoryThe diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWill a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
Amos
Minor Prophets / Amos(Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Proverbs
WisdomFor God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
Job
WisdomLabour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Genesis
LawWhoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.
Numbers
LawBut he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Luke
GospelsAnd thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
Exodus
LawThat he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.