And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Job
WisdomThem hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahHe also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraYet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBecause the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahNeither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Genesis
Law / MosesMy defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesSo they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.
Exodus
LawPut on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesFor the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.
Genesis
LawHe teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
Psalms
PoetryThe righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.