And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.
Genesis
Law / MosesBehold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
Job
WisdomThese things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
John
Gospels / JohnIt is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Psalms
PoetryAgain the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
Exodus
LawAnd some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
Mark
GospelsThe wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
John
GospelsBecause thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsAnd old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
Joshua
HistoryAs a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
Revelation
ApocalypticIf thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSaul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
1 Samuel
HistoryIf a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Exodus
LawAnd he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the LORD.
Leviticus
LawThe cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesYour new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.