Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.
Numbers
Law / MosesTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
Esther
History / MordecaiWho among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAs thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
Matthew
GospelsAnd David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.
1 Chronicles
HistoryI am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem.
Acts
HistoryTake heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownOf Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Psalms
PoetryThe princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaHowbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
Judges
HistoryAnd Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.