And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
Job
WisdomAnd he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis
LawThat led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahA righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
2 Chronicles
HistoryDeliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
Psalms
PoetryBut that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesRegard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
LawWhen I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhen they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSo Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
1 Samuel
HistoryIf a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAgain I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.