Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhen thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
Luke
GospelsAnd thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielTherefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
John
GospelsAnd Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
Exodus
Law / MosesLo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
Job
WisdomAnd I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNeither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
2 Samuel
HistoryWherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Acts
HistoryAnd Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahHe made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
Psalms
PoetryAnd they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesDo ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
Job
Wisdom / JobI indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
Mark
GospelsWherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,
Acts
HistoryAnd the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.