And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesDelight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThey cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Job
WisdomThen will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
Leviticus
LawThen I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Job
WisdomThis is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
John
GospelsAnd the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
Ezra
History / EzraFor as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
Proverbs
WisdomSay, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
Genesis
LawThey drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
Judges
HistoryAnd to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
Exodus
LawSing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:
1 Kings
HistoryYour remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons' due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBehold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: