Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalms
PoetryAnd besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBe wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
Psalms
PoetryBut when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulLet not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
Psalms
PoetryO wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulSo Paul departed from among them.
Acts
History / LukeAnd put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Proverbs
WisdomNeither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewLet destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBecause thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTherefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.