I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSaying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
Psalms
PoetryFor he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelYet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThe Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesFor though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much sope, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.
Genesis
LawAnd he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:
Leviticus
Law / MosesI am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Psalms
PoetryAnd their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
2 Kings
HistoryThou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsO Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd 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 where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Job
WisdomThus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWhen thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy
LawBehold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.