But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
Genesis
Law / MosesBe not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Matthew
GospelsHe that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
1 John
General EpistlesThine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
Psalms
PoetryFor so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIn 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 Prophets / IsaiahThen answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahOr if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.
Exodus
LawAnd it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
1 Kings
HistoryFor Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,
2 Chronicles
HistoryThat, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.
Mark
GospelsShe also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
Proverbs
WisdomWhosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
1 John
General EpistlesThorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
Mark
GospelsForasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
Acts
HistoryAnd the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: