But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThat they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
Exodus
LawThis thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD'S anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBehold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Judges
HistoryBut Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIn that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWhen they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIt came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsShew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar's.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
Revelation
ApocalypticWhat shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
Mark
Gospels / MarkWhich executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
Exodus
Law / MosesThis is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:
Numbers
Law / MosesHe brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
Psalms
PoetryAnd their brethren the sons of Merari stood on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,