Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
Genesis
LawAnd the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.
Judges
HistoryAnd as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielYe shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.
Numbers
LawCounsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.
Acts
HistoryOr have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
Job
WisdomAnd, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSeest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMalchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWill ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Job
WisdomWere they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIn like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.