And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
Proverbs
Wisdom(For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy
LawThou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
Psalms
PoetryThe Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHeaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
Acts
History / LukeAnd now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThis is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.
Acts
History / LukeAnd when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.
Acts
HistoryWas the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukAnd there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsThese are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraTherefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.
Exodus
Law / MosesThou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBreach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.
1 Samuel
HistoryThen I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.