When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
Job
Wisdom / JobBehold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukWhich also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
Acts
HistoryAnd he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?
Mark
GospelsThey were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
Psalms
PoetryThen all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
Judges
HistoryIra the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraMy zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
Luke
GospelsThe joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsNow Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:
Numbers
Law / MosesBut when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
Nehemiah
HistoryMake a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIf, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThrough God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
Genesis
LawAnd see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
Judges
History / SamuelDavid also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraYe have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
Joshua
HistoryBut whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.