And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
Joshua
HistoryThus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Amon.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahHear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
Psalms
PoetryLet us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
Deuteronomy
LawWhen thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomMy soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.
Judges
History / SamuelThey are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Genesis
Law / MosesTherefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kir-heres.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsPharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMy flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd over the course of the second month was Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course was Mikloth also the ruler: in his course likewise were twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBecause of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
Nahum
Minor Prophets / NahumAnd the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraEven that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!