Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Honour widows that are widows indeed.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThat thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIn those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
2 Kings
HistorySo they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.
Judges
History / SamuelO my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
2 Samuel
HistorySon of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsYet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
1 Kings
HistoryI also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAll thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsJehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table.
Luke
GospelsAnd he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
Deuteronomy
LawThat frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIn thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.