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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She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
Job
WisdomAnd this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
1 John
General EpistlesThis month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Exodus
LawBut if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.
Numbers
Law / MosesTherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
Acts
History / LukeHe shall break also the images of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.
Luke
GospelsAnd in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSeest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
Leviticus
LawHis mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Psalms
PoetryHe that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhen I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahKeep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonShall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Job
Wisdom / JobThen I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.