And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesJesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBy this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
John
GospelsAnd they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
Amos
Minor ProphetsBabylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTherefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahSimon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHow shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
Exodus
LawI will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraTherefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
John
Gospels / JohnAdam, Sheth, Enosh,
1 Chronicles
HistoryI have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThat ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesSix days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
Exodus
LawFor he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.
Mark
Gospels / MarkMicha, Rehob, Hashabiah,
Nehemiah
HistoryBut, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
Hebrews
General EpistlesIf thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
Deuteronomy
LawFor unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulConsider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider it.