The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis
LawHow much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Job
Wisdom / JobThou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king's army was Joab.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
Ezra
History / EzraTherefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsOf the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraOil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
Exodus
Law / MosesFor I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
Ezra
HistoryA noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh,
Joshua
HistoryNow the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahGird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?
Luke
GospelsAnd Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susah,
Joshua
HistoryAnd there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.
Matthew
GospelsAlso, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielOnly acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.