Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahI would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTruly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
Psalms
PoetryAlas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Matthew
GospelsWho hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielYe know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
Matthew
GospelsFor this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
Genesis
LawThen Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
Genesis
Law / MosesWho can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job
WisdomThe voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
Psalms
PoetryO that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
Acts
History / LukeIt is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
John
GospelsThou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.