The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
Job
WisdomTake heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.
Exodus
LawOut of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
James
General Epistles / JamesSo Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth-el, he and all the people that were with him.
Genesis
LawThen the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,
John
GospelsBecause of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFrom the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people.
Leviticus
LawSpeak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:
Numbers
LawAnd the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesBut Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewChoosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownFor God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThen the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he is unclean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewYet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.