All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
Esther
HistoryThe integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonYea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day: for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?
2 Chronicles
HistoryHe suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
Joshua
HistorySo the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Job
WisdomBy night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.
1 Samuel
HistoryHowbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.
John
Gospels / JohnThe Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
Luke
GospelsAnd when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
Matthew
GospelsA man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThe length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSo we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesHave I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?