And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThese also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein:
Numbers
LawTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAbide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanA violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.
Genesis
Law / MosesBy the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBehold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
Exodus
Law / MosesAlso I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:
Luke
GospelsO generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahYea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHe that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ije-abarim, in the border of Moab.
Numbers
LawAnd it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsSo Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.
Joshua
HistoryFor, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahBut Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?