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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And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
1 Samuel
HistoryThen went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.
Judges
History / SamuelHe shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
Psalms
PoetryThey shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAs he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesFor now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
Job
Wisdom / JobAs yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:
Matthew
GospelsAnd Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he.
Numbers
LawAnd when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.
Luke
GospelsTherefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.
1 Samuel
HistoryMoreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsWere they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTake the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
Numbers
LawTherefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsOf Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.