Isaiah 28:26
For his God instructs and teaches him properly.
BSB
ASV
For his God doth instruct him aright, and doth teach him.
KJV
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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James 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
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John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.
So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
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Psalms 144:1Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
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He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Second, the discretion of his judgment, for he punishes some in one way and others in a different way, just as a farmer beats out wheat in one way and cumin in another, and he indicates this where it says: for he will instruct him …
For his God doth instruct him - All nations have agreed in attributing agriculture, the most useful and the most necessary of all sciences, to the invention and to the suggestions of their deities. “The Most High hath ordained husbandry, “saith the son of Sirach, Ecclus. 7:15. Namque Ceres fertur fruges, Liberque liquoris Vitigeni laticem mortalibus instituisse.
