And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
Genesis
LawThey only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBut those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Numbers
Law / MosesThis shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
Exodus
LawIt is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
Luke
Gospels / LukeIf iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
Job
WisdomSet thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
Exodus
LawAnd against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.
John
GospelsThen Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnOne of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him,
John
Gospels / JohnAnd I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.