Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
Esther
HistoryAnd he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy
LawWhen thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy
LawTherefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahBut if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
Numbers
LawHe looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.
Mark
GospelsAnd the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
Exodus
LawTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.
Exodus
LawAfter many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsShe crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
2 Samuel
HistoryHearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Proverbs
WisdomFor though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesHe sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:
Leviticus
Law / MosesSo the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
Joshua
HistoryAnd hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
Ezra
HistoryWise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Proverbs
WisdomAgainst him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.