And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.
Exodus
LawTherefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
LawHe cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMy soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTherefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsThat thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king's mule:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
Genesis
Law / MosesTherefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Leviticus
LawBut they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThen took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
John
GospelsAnd if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
Leviticus
LawLet our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNow the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Genesis
LawSo his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
Judges
History / SamuelThe thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.