No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
Psalms
PoetryAnd so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNow the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,
1 Kings
HistoryFor he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.
Job
Wisdom / JobA people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesI returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomWhose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramoth-gilead.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.
Esther
History / MordecaiDebate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:
Proverbs
WisdomThen said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
1 Samuel
HistoryDraw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumThe LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel,
Joshua
HistoryAnd every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought them.
Exodus
LawAnd the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnSaying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Luke
Gospels / LukeIf thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThey went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.