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Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
Genesis
LawAnd if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Joshua
History / JoshuaSome remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
Job
WisdomAnd I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTake the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahI will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelEbed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhere is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAssur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
Deuteronomy
LawA froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesMine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThis is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
Leviticus
LawAnd the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawThat ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.