Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTherefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
John
GospelsLet nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesAnd thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God.
Luke
GospelsTherefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire by.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHe made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.
Acts
History / LukeI have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
Luke
GospelsAnd when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
Numbers
LawAre not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
Luke
GospelsAnd it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
Deuteronomy
LawThe children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahProphesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.