(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterBut thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawThen shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
Numbers
Law / MosesTo what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsOf Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Numbers
LawAnd first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire.
Mark
GospelsAnd build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.
Judges
HistoryIn that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
Micah
Minor ProphetsIt is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Luke
GospelsAnd Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.
Genesis
LawHow long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd of Hushim he begat Abitub, and Elpaal.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Ben-hadad,
1 Kings
HistoryBut ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Luke
GospelsBut ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
1 John
General EpistlesAnd they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;