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?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
Psalms
PoetryBut if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
2 Samuel
HistoryGrace be with you all. Amen.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAt the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them.
Leviticus
Law / MosesTake away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonKnow ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
James
General EpistlesNow his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
Luke
Gospels / LukeSo he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.
Judges
HistoryAnd her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.
Judges
HistoryThus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
John
GospelsAnd he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.
Exodus
LawFor he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.
Esther
HistoryWhen he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found.
1 Samuel
HistoryWho redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
Psalms
PoetryBut when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
Acts
HistoryLover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.