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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
Genesis
Law / MosesIn the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
2 Kings
HistoryThen came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
LawAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
2 Kings
HistoryHear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
Job
Wisdom / JobBy which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahYet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWhere no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.
Deuteronomy
LawOur God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Psalms
PoetrySaying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
Acts
HistoryI have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Job
WisdomJesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
John
GospelsAnd the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:
Numbers
Law / MosesThen I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.