And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesSince thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
Exodus
Law / MosesSo he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.
Ezra
History / EzraShe put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
Judges
History / SamuelFor he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.
Psalms
PoetryThe wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
Luke
GospelsAnd upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put to the staves thereof:
Numbers
Law / MosesThus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
2 Samuel
HistoryThey proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
Joshua
History / JoshuaOr a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Deuteronomy
LawThen he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the LORD God of Israel.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
Numbers
LawAnd David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal-perazim.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
Psalms
PoetryBetter is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,