Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
Exodus
LawBehold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsRestore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.
1 Samuel
HistorySaying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAlso for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all the vessels of service in the house of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
HistoryNow Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
John
Gospels / JohnCease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers
LawAnd their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:
Joshua
HistoryNow Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
John
GospelsAnd on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:
Numbers
LawMy heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahThen Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
Matthew
GospelsAnd he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.
Acts
HistoryIn thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewI have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
Job
WisdomThen came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewI thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead.