Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Proverbs
WisdomKeep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Psalms
PoetryHe leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.
Nehemiah
HistoryI am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and others(And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds.)
Luke
GospelsBut now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
2 Kings
HistoryAs touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
Acts
History / LukeThe depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your God.
Ezra
HistoryWho is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Job
WisdomAnd he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.