As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
Genesis
Law / MosesHear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
Psalms
PoetryBut when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,
Acts
History / LukeSo will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsO GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFive and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
2 Kings
HistoryFor in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahNeither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.