Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
Acts
HistoryAnd 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
History / SamuelBut after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
Titus
Pauline EpistlesAnd it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsNow therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielPilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
John
Gospels / JohnThe horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.
Acts
HistoryBut the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
Nehemiah
HistoryVanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThere be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonYe have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
Hebrews
General EpistlesIf thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAll the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.
Joshua
HistoryAll these of the sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men for strength for the service, were threescore and two of Obed-edom.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
Exodus
LawO keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
Deuteronomy
LawFor thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.