And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
Nehemiah
HistoryOne young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Numbers
LawThe word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?
Judges
History / SamuelHe measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWho shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesBut in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
Luke
GospelsAnd Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
Mark
GospelsThere shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesDid I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.
1 Samuel
HistoryYe mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIf he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
Exodus
LawAnd when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraTo appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,