And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Acts
History / LukeAs God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
Job
Wisdom / JobThe princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.
Judges
History / SamuelI will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
Job
WisdomAnd Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.
1 Kings
HistoryThe LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
Genesis
LawThe sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.
John
GospelsAnd he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.
Acts
HistoryIn the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
1 Kings
HistoryYe shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahRemember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Proverbs
WisdomSaying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
Acts
HistoryHe shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Proverbs
WisdomYe have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
Luke
Gospels / LukeIn that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielOh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!