For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
Exodus
LawThen Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
Job
Wisdom / JobMake me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?
Acts
HistoryMy soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
Psalms
PoetryThat then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSaying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
Matthew
GospelsNow I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThat I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAs soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him.
1 Samuel
HistoryThen answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd Saul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
Genesis
Law / MosesThere is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsA violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
Proverbs
WisdomFor the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
Leviticus
Law / MosesWhen my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.