If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
Judges
HistoryHe bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
Psalms
PoetryWhen thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
Proverbs
WisdomNow Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.
Amos
Minor ProphetsBlessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Job
Wisdom / JobYet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
Exodus
Law / MosesThey that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesNow these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
Genesis
LawAnd I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNeither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahI am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIn what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
Nehemiah
HistoryWherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
James
General EpistlesThen the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.
Acts
History / LukeSurely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
Numbers
LawI call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
Genesis
LawSo there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraFor it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.