This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
Leviticus
LawGlory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Exodus
LawAnd I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahThen the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSee now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesMine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiAnd the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Job
WisdomA wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.
Proverbs
WisdomThen there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.
Acts
History / LukeThe king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
Joshua
History / JoshuaLORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
Numbers
LawThe king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesIn the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.