Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
Job
WisdomThen ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
Numbers
LawAnd it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
Luke
GospelsWhich of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
Acts
History / LukeAnd Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
Genesis
Law / MosesThough he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd they brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHe that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
1 John
General EpistlesAnd the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:
Leviticus
Law / MosesSo I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
Numbers
Law / MosesDraw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
Psalms
PoetryThen said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
Esther
History / MordecaiThen shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:
Mark
Gospels / MarkSurely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.