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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For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
Hebrews
General EpistlesIt is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying.
Acts
HistoryAnd rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelOne golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers
LawAnd Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
John
GospelsThough the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
Psalms
PoetryBut now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luke
Gospels / LukeNow about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
Acts
History / LukeConcerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
Psalms
PoetryGo to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
James
General EpistlesAnd when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNow if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;