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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When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Leviticus
LawHowbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryWho by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
Acts
History / LukeWhich indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Matthew
GospelsCast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
Genesis
LawAnd so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.
Mark
GospelsAnd king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
Numbers
LawAnd the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThen said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
1 Chronicles
HistoryLet them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
Leviticus
LawThe fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWhen thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsOh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Psalms
PoetryLast of all the woman died also.
Luke
GospelsThe Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesWhereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulEither what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?
Luke
GospelsAnd Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.