By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
Numbers
Law / MosesA time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonI lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNow therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSo will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.
Psalms
PoetryBut Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
1 Chronicles
HistoryWhich long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.
1 Kings
HistoryAs the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Luke
GospelsAnd Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Genesis
LawIf I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
Genesis
LawWoe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThen went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
Genesis
LawBut the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
Job
WisdomAnd Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.