Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahYea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWhat shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
Psalms
PoetryBut unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
Deuteronomy
LawDoth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulSay unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
Acts
History / LukeBehold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonYet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job
Wisdom / JobBecause it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
Mark
GospelsFor we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.
Numbers
Law / MosesEven so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Matthew
GospelsThe king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Proverbs
WisdomThat they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsNone of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.
Genesis
LawAnd he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned it upon the altar.
Leviticus
LawThe God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
Acts
HistoryOf the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.
Ezra
HistorySave us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
Psalms
PoetryThey that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;