And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
Psalms
PoetryBut when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
Leviticus
LawNot because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulRemembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThe voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThese are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Matthew
GospelsWill he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
Job
Wisdom / JobBut they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.
Luke
GospelsAnd in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBecause Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
2 Kings
History(After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWho hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Proverbs
WisdomAnd David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelJesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.
John
GospelsAnd the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.
Numbers
LawAnd so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
Joshua
History / JoshuaWhen they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
2 Samuel
HistoryTake a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnHowbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.
Acts
HistoryBecause of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWho, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.