A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.
Genesis
LawI have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahTake the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:
Numbers
Law / MosesBut my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsThat he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterGo therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Job
WisdomAnd it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIt shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
Job
Wisdom / JobIf any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:
1 Kings
HistoryFor all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
1 Kings
HistoryO Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsIn the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Psalms
PoetryWash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
Esther
HistoryAnd he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
Acts
History / LukeYe 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
Law / MosesAnd Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
Acts
History / LukeThen did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.