And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
1 Kings
HistoryTheir children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd also unto the Levites; they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraIn thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
Mark
GospelsAnd the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
Joshua
HistoryBut Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
Joshua
History / JoshuaThat they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
Acts
HistoryAnd it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanI have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahOur fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahNow the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Exodus
LawFor a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Psalms
PoetryAnd of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
1 Chronicles
HistoryNow when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
Matthew
GospelsAnd they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?