If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
Job
WisdomAnd Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
1 Samuel
HistoryServants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
1 Peter
General EpistlesThat they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel
Major ProphetsFor we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Esther
HistoryFor great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
Exodus
Law / MosesI sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIn the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.
Acts
History / LukeBut he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare?
Luke
GospelsA naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before Israel, they gathered themselves together.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
Judges
History / SamuelThe LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsTherefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
Genesis
LawBut it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.
2 Chronicles
HistoryI will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king's sons come: as thy servant said, so it is.