And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahAnd Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.
Judges
HistoryThus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire by.
2 Kings
HistoryHave any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?
John
GospelsYour eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.
1 Kings
HistoryWho said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
Psalms
PoetryThou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSurely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Job
WisdomAnd he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.
Luke
Gospels / LukeI speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.
1 Chronicles
HistoryShall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Job
WisdomAnd Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanWho hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?