Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
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And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Matthew
GospelsNevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:
Judges
History / SamuelBut take heed lest by any means this liberty of your's become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
Psalms
PoetryI also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
Judges
History / SamuelAnd Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.
1 Samuel
HistoryNow when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWhose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
Judges
HistorySpeak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
James
General EpistlesWere it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
Revelation
ApocalypticThou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
Genesis
Law / MosesCalled of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
Hebrews
General EpistlesSo ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
Luke
GospelsThe great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.