And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
Deuteronomy
LawThe LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
Psalms
PoetryFor whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the families of Kirjath-jearim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with James and John.
Mark
Gospels / MarkStand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThey have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsHe shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
Leviticus
LawThe children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryBy this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
1 John
General EpistlesAnd unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Job
WisdomThen shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiJohn answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
Luke
GospelsAnd he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
1 Kings
HistoryFor, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWho hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
Deuteronomy
LawI thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielIf the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art not thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.