And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahIn weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesReceive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
Job
WisdomFor I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaI cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersA righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahIt hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThe king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.
Luke
GospelsAnd David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?
1 Samuel
HistoryFor their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
Proverbs
WisdomFor in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsA time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThe children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.