It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThere they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
Exodus
LawBut in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
Daniel
Major ProphetsForsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin: but he walked therein.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonOf the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewSeek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNeither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWho being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesThat which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielTrouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersA woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
John
Gospels / JohnA day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Joel
Minor ProphetsGo, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHis breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not:
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.