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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesNow there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
Job
WisdomThen he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThese are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
LawAnd in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's name was Maachah:
1 Chronicles
HistoryFeed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahTherefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahAnd he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahTeach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesHe causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
1 Kings
HistoryThis is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.
Genesis
LawAnd it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
Joshua
History / JoshuaOf the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd threescore and one thousand asses,
Numbers
LawThy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsForty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
Joshua
History / JoshuaJesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.