And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
Genesis
Law / MosesThey that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Proverbs
WisdomTherefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
1 Kings
HistoryOne of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.
Judges
History / SamuelI will therefore chastise him, and release him.
Luke
GospelsArt thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukAnd he left all, rose up, and followed him.
Luke
GospelsAnd they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.
Judges
History / SamuelThe earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukSpeak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
Leviticus
LawThou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.
Acts
History / LukeSo I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThe keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.
Genesis
LawThe earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThere is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.