And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
Exodus
LawWho, when they came to Caesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.
Acts
HistoryThou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd their brethren, mighty men of valour, an hundred twenty and eight: and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of one of the great men.
Nehemiah
HistoryBut we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Numbers
LawAnd he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:
Genesis
Law / MosesFor the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Joshua
HistoryFor the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsDeliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms
PoetryYet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
Matthew
GospelsThe whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?
1 Samuel
HistoryThat I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.
Mark
GospelsAnd after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
Judges
HistoryThese are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
Genesis
LawBehold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.