Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Genesis
LawMine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
Psalms
PoetryFor the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
Genesis
LawThen ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra
HistoryIn that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHer prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAnd it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
1 Kings
HistoryOf the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
Job
WisdomAnd the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name.
Esther
HistoryAnd it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThey proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahDeliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
Psalms
PoetryEbed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.