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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
Psalms
PoetryTwo things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThey did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielShall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?
Obadiah
Minor Prophets / ObadiahThe hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
Psalms
PoetryWhosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
1 John
General EpistlesBlotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
1 Kings
HistoryI will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsAnd have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Acts
History / LukeBehold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.