And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
Job
Wisdom / JobBehold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lamentations
Major ProphetsYet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
2 Chronicles
HistorySpeak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Proverbs
WisdomBehold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel.
Leviticus
LawWhich thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
Luke
Gospels / LukeAt the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Deuteronomy
LawThe Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.
Numbers
Law / MosesBring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
Matthew
GospelsAnd they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
Joshua
History / JoshuaWhen I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:
Mark
GospelsFor thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosWhile the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with thy servant.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
Luke
GospelsBut we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.