This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,
Matthew
GospelsAnd it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhen I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
Psalms
PoetryJudgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonIn his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.
Acts
History / LukeThese things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
John
Gospels / JohnThen went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:
Exodus
LawThen Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
Judges
HistoryAnd this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsThus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi; and they came to Dan-jaan, and about to Zidon,
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThere went with us also certain of the disciples of Caesarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge.
Acts
History / LukeLet all your things be done with charity.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesWhich executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWho is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
Genesis
Law / MosesTo fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
2 Samuel
HistoryIn whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
Psalms
PoetrySo I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNot so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.