And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
Numbers
LawWilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Job
WisdomAnd he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,
Esther
History / MordecaiEgypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
Leviticus
LawHis eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonSo Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king's gate.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them.
Judges
HistoryAnd Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
2 Chronicles
HistoryNow therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
Genesis
LawThen Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.
2 Kings
HistoryThen Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
Exodus
LawWhen I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulSo hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.
Revelation
ApocalypticBut his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelBesides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
Leviticus
LawAnd said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraTheir blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three.