And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?
Exodus
LawRehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
Ezra
HistoryThe kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
Matthew
GospelsBut Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
2 Samuel
HistoryHe was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
John
Gospels / JohnThere is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.
Joshua
History / JoshuaNow in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
Luke
GospelsWherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
Mark
Gospels / MarkMeekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
Judges
HistoryAnd repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesI will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
Psalms
PoetryThe sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Numbers
Law / MosesSo Job died, being old and full of days.
Job
Wisdom / JobNeither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
Leviticus
LawOne golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis
LawWhy do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
Matthew
GospelsAnd thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: