And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
Genesis
LawThe troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
Job
Wisdom / JobO send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhen the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.
John
GospelsThen three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
Judges
HistoryThy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahPeradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
Genesis
LawMarriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Hebrews
General EpistlesGod judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersRemember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Matthew
GospelsI am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
Luke
GospelsCome now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.
Exodus
LawBetter is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomFor a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.