No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesDeliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
Psalms
PoetryHappy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?
Genesis
LawThey also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Psalms
PoetryEven as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.
1 Samuel
HistoryBow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Psalms
PoetryO give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryGilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
Judges
HistoryThen said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
1 Samuel
HistoryThe men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty and one.
Nehemiah
HistorySo he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
Proverbs
WisdomThere is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
Matthew
GospelsThe fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
Genesis
Law / MosesLORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhen I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulTherefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThey were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTherefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.