And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
Revelation
ApocalypticThen Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
Job
WisdomThen the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsNow the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
1 Kings
HistoryShe shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelThou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielFor thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsYe shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:
Esther
History / MordecaiThere shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day.
1 Samuel
HistoryAs vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.