On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiNeither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
Exodus
Law / MosesHave the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house.
1 Kings
HistoryThus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
Luke
GospelsAnd shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
Matthew
GospelsNow therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
Exodus
LawAnd if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHow is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesA friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs
WisdomFor thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
Joel
Minor ProphetsBut every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
Exodus
LawBeing enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Psalms
PoetryHow shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.