For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
Leviticus
LawAnd thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
Exodus
LawThen said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,
2 Chronicles
HistoryHe answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
James
General EpistlesAnd when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulArt thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIf ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
John
GospelsBut if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMan knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
Job
WisdomAs he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
Luke
GospelsGive none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNow the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWill the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.
1 Samuel
HistoryThey shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.