And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSeemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHonour widows that are widows indeed.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulBy pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBecause he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
Job
WisdomNebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAlso I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
Genesis
Law / MosesSo do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do to him;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIf my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
Job
WisdomOn the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin, offered:
Numbers
LawI was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsI will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not their's.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsAnd the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnWho his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterFor that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
James
General EpistlesNow therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.