And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
Job
Wisdom / JobO praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersJesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
John
Gospels / JohnThat the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
Luke
Gospels / LukeSanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsOne Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesOut of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Job
WisdomAnd they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
Genesis
LawBehold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
Job
WisdomThou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsI will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThere was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
Exodus
LawAnd he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhen thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Genesis
LawWhy sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall give many; but from them that have few ye shall give few: every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.