But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
Exodus
Law / MosesI indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
Matthew
GospelsAnd thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Leviticus
LawIn the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnWho hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
1 Kings
HistoryHowbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
Genesis
Law / MosesLORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThey 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.
1 John
General EpistlesBut he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom ye speak.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
Genesis
LawBe not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThe troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
Job
WisdomLet us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
Exodus
LawNow from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
Matthew
GospelsSeven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsUnto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king: