Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Joshua
HistoryElihu also proceeded, and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Genesis
Law / MosesIf I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Job
WisdomSon of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Elisha said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahA fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonI will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Job
WisdomThe heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
1 Kings
HistoryWhom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
Philemon
Pauline EpistlesThou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
Judges
HistoryAnd Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
Esther
History / MordecaiThus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:
Leviticus
Law / MosesI will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Numbers
Law / MosesBecause I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.