If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.
Judges
HistoryAnd he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
2 Kings
HistoryThen the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:
Numbers
LawAnd unto the sons of Kohath, which were left of the family of that tribe, were cities given out of the half tribe, namely, out of the half tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
Acts
HistoryNone eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBe ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
Luke
GospelsAnd the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Genesis
LawAlso he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
Genesis
Law / MosesGive ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesFear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
Judges
HistorySanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWhosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.
Mark
GospelsI beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.