And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiWhen he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon was the border of Moab.
Judges
HistoryThe Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
John
GospelsAnd his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
Luke
Gospels / LukeThere they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
John
Gospels / JohnBehold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelOf the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and thirty:
1 Chronicles
HistorySaying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
Mark
Gospels / MarkLove ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy
LawCursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Genesis
LawAnd these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.
2 Chronicles
HistoryI understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
Psalms
PoetryI therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
Exodus
LawI am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.