And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiNow Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.
1 Kings
HistoryAh Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFrom thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers
LawAnd the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnHe shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
1 Samuel
HistoryStand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHappy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.
Mark
Gospels / MarkMy transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
Job
WisdomAin, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:
Joshua
HistoryFor I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Jude
General Epistles / JudeFor precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
2 Chronicles
HistoryI have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
Genesis
Law / MosesI made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.