But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBe merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
Psalms
PoetryThen Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
Ezra
HistoryFearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the LORD hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
Exodus
LawFor the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
Esther
HistoryThe Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
Exodus
Law / MosesThou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Exodus
LawI have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
Malachi
Minor ProphetsThen said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
John
GospelsAnd this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he must needs go through Samaria.
John
GospelsAnd Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.
Judges
History / SamuelWho is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job
WisdomWhen there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.