Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
Genesis
Law / MosesThrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
Ruth
HistoryHearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Proverbs
WisdomThe morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
Proverbs
WisdomOught ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
2 Chronicles
HistorySo concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
Acts
History / LukeBut what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFlee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIdolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulI will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
Judges
HistoryAnd the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Leviticus
LawThen I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAs for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.
Luke
GospelsThey only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryThen he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: