For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAs a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
Proverbs
WisdomBut to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAgain, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
Matthew
GospelsAs for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielPour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Psalms
PoetryTo devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
Exodus
Law / MosesLet my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
Psalms
PoetryAnd sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnBut I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesLet the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThat he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
Psalms
PoetryIt was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.
Luke
GospelsKeep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.
Joshua
History / JoshuaTherefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
Matthew
GospelsAnd David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.