And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
1 Chronicles
HistoryTake the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.
Numbers
LawWhen Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
Matthew
GospelsHearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
Genesis
LawThey are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
Job
WisdomHe shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:
Leviticus
LawJesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
Numbers
LawRemember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep your's also.
John
Gospels / JohnHaving predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulMy doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
Deuteronomy
LawThe sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
Psalms
PoetryIs not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:
Acts
History / LukeAnd the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)
Esther
History / MordecaiForasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,
Luke
Gospels / LukeRemember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exodus
Law / MosesAlso in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.
Leviticus
LawThis is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIf any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWas then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.