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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
Deuteronomy
LawThe hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTo crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
Lamentations
Major ProphetsPhilip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHow forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Job
Wisdom / JobFor how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Genesis
Law / MosesBecause they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
Psalms
PoetryAnd when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.
Acts
History / LukeThy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
Genesis
Law / MosesSo Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
Judges
HistoryGet you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
Numbers
Law / MosesThorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Proverbs
WisdomI am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Luke
GospelsFor thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThey saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
Acts
History / LukeAnd hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesBut rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
Luke
GospelsThe mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.