And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
Numbers
Law / MosesThen came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Leviticus
LawAnd thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
Exodus
LawAnd next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThe children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.
2 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick.
Numbers
LawAnd whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart.
Luke
GospelsAnd he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.
Luke
GospelsBut Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahOf his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
James
General EpistlesEphraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAll the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukLet not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulUpon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
Luke
GospelsTake therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.