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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
Judges
History / SamuelWhen thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,
Mark
GospelsThen tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
1 Kings
HistoryWhat will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesYet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsI have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.
Acts
History / LukeBehold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
Job
WisdomYea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSon of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBecause he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSurely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhile he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.
Acts
HistoryAnd the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielCommanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
Acts
HistoryAnd thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.