Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Jude
General Epistles / JudeYour iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIt was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownWhy askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said.
John
Gospels / JohnHow long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
Psalms
PoetryAnd he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWhile he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Job
Wisdom / JobHow fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesBut I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.
Acts
History / LukeHe that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBe not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
Acts
History / LukeAnd I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.
Genesis
LawBetter is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.