And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.
1 Samuel
HistoryThen fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Job
WisdomSix days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
Leviticus
Law / MosesI came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
Daniel
Major ProphetsO LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers
LawMy foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersConcerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahWhen the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
Luke
Gospels / LukeI went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
Ruth
HistoryAnd now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielJesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
John
Gospels / JohnIt is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAwake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.