Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Job
WisdomAnd I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
Genesis
LawTherefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
2 Kings
HistorySo he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover.
2 Kings
HistoryThey shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraMy lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
Psalms
PoetryThe word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd of the sons of Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
Ezra
History / EzraI love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
Job
WisdomAnd she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Exodus
Law / MosesHe will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
Joshua
History / JoshuaPeter then denied again: and immediately the cock crew.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.
Ezra
HistoryLook thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
Psalms
PoetryFor out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.
Luke
GospelsTell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewFor the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.