I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThis day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
Deuteronomy
LawAll the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBecause thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
Luke
GospelsThe burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThen thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
Genesis
LawBehold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
Revelation
ApocalypticNow therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
Exodus
Law / MosesAgain the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion.
Judges
History / SamuelThe candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light,
Exodus
Law / MosesWe would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThey were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
Job
WisdomThey shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.