Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsLet my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Solomon's Song
PoetryDo ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.
Acts
HistoryThere go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
Psalms
PoetryNow in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThat, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesSeventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem.
2 Samuel
HistoryWherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsGive unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.
Luke
GospelsSaying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?