The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
2 Chronicles
HistoryI rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
Psalms
PoetryFor if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
Genesis
LawAnd Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
Exodus
LawOf Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
Nehemiah
HistoryBut truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahSon of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
2 Samuel
HistoryThine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
Micah
Minor ProphetsThey stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.
Psalms
PoetryNow the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
Genesis
LawAnd when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God was your king.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
Judges
HistoryWith whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;
Joshua
HistoryO let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryMine answer to them that do examine me is this,
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
Leviticus
LawNow concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.