But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Luke
GospelsAnd he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?
Luke
GospelsAnd Bath-sheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.
1 Kings
HistoryBut they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulHow beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonThe blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Genesis
Law / MosesThough ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
Acts
History / LukeAnd all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
Exodus
Law / MosesBecause there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
Judges
History / SamuelI have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and the LORD would not destroy thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTake his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.