Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThe ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,
Exodus
LawI behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Psalms
PoetryBut love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Luke
GospelsAnd Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
Matthew
GospelsYe ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
James
General Epistles / JamesThen brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
Leviticus
LawKings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
Psalms
PoetryThy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonWherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjath-jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWhosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewSurely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryFor indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
Psalms
PoetryAnd his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
Amos
Minor ProphetsIf there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
Job
Wisdom / JobBut if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.