Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelAnd the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
Deuteronomy
LawThe wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
Proverbs
WisdomWilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd in the valley, Beth-aram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.
Joshua
HistoryTherefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahSo that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsKnowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
Job
WisdomIt shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Mark
GospelsTo hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Iphedeiah, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak;
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
Genesis
Law / MosesCome and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
2 Kings
HistoryTherefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis
LawFor out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
1 Samuel
HistoryMoreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;
2 Chronicles
HistoryO LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
Psalms
PoetryAnd we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
Luke
GospelsThat which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.