And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
Deuteronomy
LawHe that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
Proverbs
WisdomSo shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAs the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
Acts
HistoryAnd all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBehold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
Psalms
PoetryShe is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Proverbs
WisdomThe sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
Luke
GospelsAnd they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the LORD talked with Moses.
Exodus
LawFor thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelJudah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ish-tob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?