And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesAt destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
Job
Wisdom / JobAt the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsOr as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Job
Wisdom / JobBehold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
Job
Wisdom / JobNow it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?
John
GospelsThy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAfter these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
1 Kings
HistoryFor I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
Leviticus
Law / MosesI spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:
Exodus
Law / MosesI suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesUnto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
Psalms
PoetryOnly acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
Luke
GospelsAnd when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:
Acts
HistoryAnd the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.