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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For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
Numbers
LawAnd there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
Acts
History / LukeAnd we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus.
Acts
History / LukeThe instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTherefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
Hebrews
General EpistlesFor he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Luke
GospelsWhoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonO give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.
Psalms
PoetrySo there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
Genesis
Law / MosesDay unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewNow when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!
2 Samuel
HistoryThey stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHe hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsHowbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesI do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Genesis
LawJudah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
Genesis
Law / MosesHow canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;