Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWhich say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThere shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAgain in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsCursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
Job
WisdomTherefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBe it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
Judges
History / SamuelWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.
Mark
GospelsAnd commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse:
Mark
GospelsFor I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
Daniel
Major ProphetsFor we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
Acts
History / LukeThey draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;