He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
Job
WisdomBehold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Genesis
LawAnd Ish-bosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Phaltiel the son of Laish.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanGive ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYe shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Exodus
LawThree times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
Exodus
LawFor Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukAnd as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
Acts
HistoryFor whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
Luke
Gospels / LukeIn their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them.
Mark
GospelsAnd said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewMy words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
Job
Wisdom / JobEnvyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
Mark
GospelsAnd Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
Genesis
LawAnd from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.