And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
Leviticus
Law / MosesDelight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Proverbs
WisdomI am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThere was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
Genesis
LawAnd fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
Esther
HistoryThe prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
Numbers
LawTherefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by En-rogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAgain, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielJesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
John
Gospels / JohnNeither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.