And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
Luke
GospelsThen said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
Acts
History / LukeIt is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the sons of Elioenai were, Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Dalaiah, and Anani, seven.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWhy art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
Luke
GospelsAnd Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house.
Luke
GospelsBut the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
Judges
HistoryThus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
Genesis
Law / Moses(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe sons of Shobal; Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
1 Kings
HistorySo now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
Judges
History / SamuelTake therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewI beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThey shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
Job
WisdomSurely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went over to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him.
Judges
HistoryAnd the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
Exodus
Law / MosesHow long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Job
Wisdom / JobThis was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?