Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAs they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs
WisdomHe saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
Genesis
Law / MosesWhere no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
Proverbs
WisdomOf all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
Leviticus
LawAnd unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Psalms
PoetryFor Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;
Numbers
Law / MosesPride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs
WisdomSon of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielI looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
Psalms
PoetryThen the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
Esther
History / MordecaiO Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
Numbers
Law / MosesTo whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,