Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.
And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.
I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?
That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.
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?
