The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
Leviticus
Law / MosesA light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
Luke
GospelsIt is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraLook unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?
Luke
GospelsAnd I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
Deuteronomy
LawThe words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomWhen he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNotwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.
Acts
History / LukeIf we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
1 John
General EpistlesBut when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
Psalms
PoetrySo there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land;
Judges
HistoryNotwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
Leviticus
LawTheir priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.