Proverbs 26:3
A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!
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Proverbs 26:3
A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!
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Exodus 10:12
Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.”
Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.
Proverbs 15:23
Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!
Proverbs 20:15
There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
Luke 4:22
All testified about him and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth; and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”
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Numbers 22:28
Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”
Numbers 22:29
Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you.”
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Judges 8:5
He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
Judges 8:6
The princes of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?”
Judges 8:7
Gideon said, “Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”
1 Corinthians 4:21
What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
2 Corinthians 10:6
and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.
2 Corinthians 13:2
I have warned previously, and I warn again, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now and to all the rest that if I come again, I will not spare,
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2 Kings 19:28
Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’
Isaiah 27:1
In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan, the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
Isaiah 30:28
His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.
Isaiah 37:29
Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
James 3:3
Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.
Revelation 14:20
The wine press was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out of the wine press, up to the bridles of the horses, as far as one thousand six hundred stadia.
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Nehemiah 3:2
Next to him the men of Jericho built. Next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built.
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Job 30:14
As through a wide breach they come. They roll themselves in amid the ruin.
Psalms 22:8
“He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
Psalms 37:5
Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:
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Proverbs 1:7
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 2:7
He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
Proverbs 10:10
One who winks with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.
Proverbs 18:6
A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.
Proverbs 19:19
A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.
Proverbs 19:25
Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.
Proverbs 26:5
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.
Proverbs 29:19
A servant can’t be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond.
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Proverbs 6:5
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
Proverbs 6:6
Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
Proverbs 6:7
which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
Proverbs 6:8
provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
Proverbs 14:4
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
Proverbs 20:2
The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
Proverbs 23:31
Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
Proverbs 23:32
In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.
Proverbs 26:11
As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.
Proverbs 26:17
Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.
Proverbs 27:8
As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.
Proverbs 27:26
The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of a field.
Proverbs 27:27
There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food, for your family’s food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.
Proverbs 28:15
As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
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Proverbs 29:1
He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
Isaiah 1:6
From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
Isaiah 51:20
Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.
Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.
Lamentations 3:27
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Lamentations 3:28
Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
Lamentations 3:29
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.
Lamentations 3:30
Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.
Hosea 10:11
Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh, so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.
Hebrews 12:6
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
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Song of Solomon 5:3
I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?
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Nahum 3:2
The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
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James 4:7
Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
James 4:10
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
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Jude 1:10
But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.
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