Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.
Leviticus
LawAnd not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
Luke
GospelsAnd woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThey shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
Genesis
LawAgain he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsTherefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
Numbers
LawAnd when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.
Luke
GospelsAnd ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsThe proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonVerily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
John
GospelsThe LORD spake also unto me again, saying,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWhich also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
Acts
History / LukeThey have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Job
WisdomWho layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThere is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThese things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties.