If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
John
GospelsHorror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples,
Mark
Gospels / MarkThough ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThe ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut prophesy not again any more at Beth-el: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosFor thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
Psalms
PoetryThat our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
Psalms
PoetryAnd over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Numbers
LawAnd the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:
Acts
HistoryOur fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
John
Gospels / JohnThey are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
Luke
GospelsThen answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsFor they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
1 Samuel
HistorySo they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.