And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus
LawAnd their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.
Exodus
LawBut my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
Genesis
LawThis day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
Deuteronomy
LawBe not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
Mark
Gospels / MarkHe taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Job
Wisdom / JobThy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonWho shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
Job
WisdomAs they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
Matthew
GospelsThat is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWoe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!