For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.
1 Samuel
HistoryAfter them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his house. After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of the east gate.
Nehemiah
HistoryI have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
John
GospelsIt shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
Leviticus
LawBut speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
Leviticus
LawAnd they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?
Genesis
LawAnd the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSon of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
Genesis
Law / MosesSo Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahThen they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Proverbs
WisdomAt his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal begat Micah.