Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIf thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsYea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
Deuteronomy
LawLaying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
Joshua
HistoryWho is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThou shalt not kill.
Exodus
LawIt 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.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSeest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahYe shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Deuteronomy
LawO thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBe wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
Psalms
PoetryOver against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.
Exodus
LawThe children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
1 Samuel
HistoryArt not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
2 Chronicles
HistoryThou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBecause that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.