For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
2 Samuel
HistoryThen Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThe fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTo Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAlso the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus
LawThe Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
Ezra
History / EzraFor they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.
Numbers
Law / MosesWhen all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Deuteronomy
LawNone calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
1 John
General EpistlesFor among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
Mark
GospelsWhen they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.
2 Samuel
HistoryTo him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterLet them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.