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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.
1 Kings
HistoryThat it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIf men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.
1 Kings
HistoryAfter that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewCan the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God.
Exodus
LawAnd when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThey shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryHe paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
Job
Wisdom / JobAll the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
Luke
GospelsThe God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
Acts
HistoryAnd Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Beth-lehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.