How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.
Judges
History / SamuelI was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
Job
WisdomAnd on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSo Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
Judges
HistoryFor as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewI cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeI will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesWe be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
Genesis
LawAnd the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Joshua
History / JoshuaWherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put to the staves thereof:
Numbers
LawNow therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesYet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
Job
Wisdom(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.)
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
Matthew
GospelsDo therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
1 Kings
HistoryShall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.