But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.
Judges
HistoryAnd his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
John
GospelsBut to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThere came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.
Acts
HistoryThou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonA day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelAnd Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahNow therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsYet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?
Genesis
Law / MosesThe carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahO spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahEdom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
Job
WisdomAccording to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawNow in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
Nehemiah
HistoryIt is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.