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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Matthew
GospelsAnd it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahNor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
Matthew
GospelsRemember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnTheir land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThere shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
Exodus
Law / MosesOne young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Numbers
LawBut we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Hebrews
General EpistlesSeven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Luke
GospelsWhy should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.
2 Samuel
HistoryA gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Col-hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of Shiloni.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
Numbers
LawAnd Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
Acts
HistoryThe anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
Job
WisdomCast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Psalms
PoetryFor thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.