And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
Judges
History / SamuelFor the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsUnto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Matthew
GospelsI believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
Psalms
PoetryFor he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownFor great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.
Ezra
HistoryAnd they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD'S offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.
Genesis
LawAnd he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiAnd Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
1 Kings
HistoryThen was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
Matthew
GospelsA wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
Proverbs
WisdomExamine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAs also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are our's in the day of the Lord Jesus.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded.
2 Samuel
HistoryThou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.