It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIn the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiPass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThe hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanDo good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
John
GospelsAnd I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Amos
Minor ProphetsThose that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
Exodus
LawThe LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersJehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
1 Kings
HistoryThere failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
2 Kings
HistoryTo the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Jude
General EpistlesI beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun.
Numbers
Law / MosesOr if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
1 John
General EpistlesFor no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesWhy did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?