Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
Acts
History / LukeTherefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAgain the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;
John
Gospels / JohnAnd out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:
Leviticus
Law / MosesThese things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAs ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBehold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAll darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
Job
Wisdom / JobTheir sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
Psalms
PoetryUntil the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
Daniel
Major ProphetsBut the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.
Ezra
HistoryAt that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.
Luke
GospelsShew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
Genesis
LawThou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?
2 Samuel
HistoryYe shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.