They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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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.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
Psalms
PoetryAnd David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
Genesis
Law / MosesMy beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.
Exodus
Law / MosesThat all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
John
GospelsTo cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
Job
WisdomThe punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.
Leviticus
Law / MosesIf they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownFor he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
Matthew
GospelsThese ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
Deuteronomy
LawBut we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
Genesis
LawWhich was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Juda,
Luke
GospelsThou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalms
PoetryBut bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
Genesis
Law / MosesThus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
Deuteronomy
LawAlso Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;)