They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsShe is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsThou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahCometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
Joshua
HistoryYe shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
Numbers
LawAnd I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
John
Gospels / JohnThe burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumZenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-gad,
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
Mark
GospelsAnd I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat.
Acts
HistoryBut new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
Luke
GospelsLet him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
James
General EpistlesFor this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.