The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
Judges
History / SamuelKnowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
Job
Wisdom / JobIn the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
Haggai
Minor ProphetsGod is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
1 Kings
HistoryThou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.
Judges
HistoryThe Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Genesis
Law / MosesBlessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
Psalms
PoetryMy son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
Proverbs
WisdomWho shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesObserve and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy
LawI shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Numbers
LawHe is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSon of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
Leviticus
LawAnd when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
Judges
HistoryThen the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
Matthew
GospelsNot every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew
GospelsAnd a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these.