And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelIf these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.
Numbers
LawO God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
Psalms
PoetrySo Solomon built the house, and finished it.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahOur soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
Psalms
PoetryA faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Proverbs
WisdomBut when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?
Numbers
LawSurely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesBut if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
Job
WisdomAs long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
Leviticus
LawAnd let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Genesis
Law / MosesThough his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
Job
WisdomAnd I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
Revelation
ApocalypticA garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
Solomon's Song
PoetryNot now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.
Genesis
Law / MosesWho shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;