Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.
Nehemiah
HistoryFor he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
Job
WisdomThat Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the LORD, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;
Luke
Gospels / LukeTheir sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
Psalms
PoetrySo and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahNeither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnBut I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThere the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Psalms
PoetryThen Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels' necks.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD:
Leviticus
LawIn that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
Revelation
ApocalypticThen Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.