It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.
Esther
HistoryOn the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben, did offer:
Numbers
LawThe lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumAnd in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterThou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBecause they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / Ezekiel(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
Proverbs
WisdomThou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Genesis
Law / MosesMy God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.
Judges
History / SamuelBe sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
1 Peter
General EpistlesSet the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsBut if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
Numbers
Law / MosesIf I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
Job
WisdomBut Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.