Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhen a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
Deuteronomy
LawThe arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
Job
Wisdom / JobMine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
Acts
HistoryAnd the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?
Judges
History / SamuelDestruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThen I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhen ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.
Judges
HistoryIt is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesWhilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThey said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.
John
Gospels / JohnHe that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
John
Gospels / JohnDrink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Proverbs
WisdomThen the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.
Numbers
Law / MosesThus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.