Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
Mark
Gospels / MarkWho gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
Job
WisdomAnd it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Revelation
ApocalypticNow it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraNeither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain in it; but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the king of Jericho.
Joshua
HistoryNow I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThat at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
Haggai
Minor ProphetsSo he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
1 Kings
HistoryIf they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
Genesis
LawFor he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.
Luke
GospelsAnd a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
Daniel
Major ProphetsHold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesLet her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.