On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
Ruth
HistoryAnd the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThe fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraI will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNeither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,
Ezra
HistoryI will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd his men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
1 Kings
HistoryThen he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
Matthew
GospelsSo they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.
Exodus
LawI told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.
Numbers
LawAnd he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd again, whom should I serve? should I not serve in the presence of his son? as I have served in thy father's presence, so will I be in thy presence.
2 Samuel
HistorySpeak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.
Leviticus
LawCursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.