Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.
1 Kings
HistoryThus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are our's in possession:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSo man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Job
WisdomMoreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIf I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
Mark
Gospels / MarkBe it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
Acts
History / LukeAnd thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
Genesis
Law / MosesNone that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Proverbs
WisdomThen took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Job
WisdomAnd the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
Acts
HistoryAnd I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.