No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHow shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
Numbers
LawThou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe eighth to Jeshaiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Revelation
ApocalypticThey shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielUnto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
Numbers
Law / MosesWhich commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
Job
Wisdom / JobSaying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAll these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages:
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:
Judges
HistoryAnd Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
Judges
HistoryAnd Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis
LawAnd Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
Genesis
LawAnd now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiAnd David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahIf I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
Job
WisdomAnd they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
Luke
GospelsLest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.
Job
WisdomFor if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?