For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.
Joshua
History / JoshuaRemove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.
Acts
HistoryBut Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
Acts
History / LukeTherefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThese are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?
Judges
HistoryWho hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
Genesis
LawAnd the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
Acts
History / LukeAnd that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
Genesis
LawThe wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalms
PoetryAnd David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThey give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
Numbers
LawThey were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.