And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host.
Judges
HistoryBut the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.
Judges
HistoryConaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHe then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.
John
GospelsLikewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesDid not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThe children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahJehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahNow therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
Genesis
LawFor they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsStay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonSo went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
Genesis
Law / MosesNow let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsViolence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's: neither shall there be wailing for them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThis shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:
Numbers
LawMoreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielOf the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.