And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.
Mark
Gospels / MarkWhile ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
Psalms
PoetryThey bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThere shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
Exodus
LawThe children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
2 Kings
HistoryRemember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
HistoryWhy withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTurn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
Psalms
PoetryThe field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
Genesis
LawNow the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBe afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
James
General EpistlesAnd all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
Joshua
HistoryBehold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Genesis
LawThen shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
Matthew
GospelsThen answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.
Acts
History / LukeTo judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.