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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As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesThe righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSaying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Luke
GospelsI have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd also unto the Levites; they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHim that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWhat is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraTherefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;
Acts
HistoryNevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIf I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
John
Gospels / JohnGive out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.
Joshua
HistoryNevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielOne kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers
LawNevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraJesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
John
GospelsAnd Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraOur fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.