Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSo they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.
Numbers
Law / MosesNow the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNeither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThis is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelPut away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonIn the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
Obadiah
Minor ProphetsWho is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
Genesis
LawHe shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.
Luke
GospelsAnd every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
Revelation
ApocalypticMy kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job
Wisdom / JobYour iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Revelation
ApocalypticHe sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
Psalms
PoetryAnd after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
Genesis
Law / MosesIn that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulYe shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.