Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
2 Kings
History / Jeremiah(The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThis wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
1 Kings
HistoryI pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
John
GospelsYet, 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 / JeremiahThat they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOn the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, offered:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
Acts
HistoryAnd it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
Joshua
HistorySo I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.