And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAlso I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahNot forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.
Leviticus
LawI have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
Psalms
PoetryWho being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
Job
WisdomIt is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesBut I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
Job
WisdomAnd here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
Joshua
History / JoshuaHave I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
1 Samuel
HistoryBut the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:
2 Chronicles
HistorySo the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.
Exodus
LawTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand: