Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:
Acts
History / LukeAnd Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.
Genesis
LawBlessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Psalms
PoetryAnd king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
Psalms
PoetryBut Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanUntil the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielTherefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
Luke
GospelsThey saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
Luke
GospelsFor he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Hebrews
General EpistlesTake heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWho hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
Genesis
Law / MosesSlay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
Psalms
PoetryAnd that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTill the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.