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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
Job
WisdomSay, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
Genesis
LawHe hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBe not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the king said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesI have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
Numbers
LawAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.
Esther
HistoryFor the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Psalms
PoetryMoreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahOr what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsThe incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;