It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
1 Kings
HistoryBe thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
Ezra
HistoryNow these are the names of his children which he had in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
Job
WisdomWherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:
Judges
History / SamuelThen the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
Luke
Gospels / LukePersecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
1 Chronicles
HistoryNow the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
Genesis
LawIf I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
Job
Wisdom / JobA man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
Exodus
LawHe hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
Job
WisdomKnow ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?
2 Chronicles
HistorySo it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
Numbers
Law / MosesHe shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
Leviticus
Law / MosesTherefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
2 Kings
HistoryThe LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.