Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Exodus
LawThe shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIf a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
John
GospelsFor the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
1 Kings
HistorySo David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to enquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
2 Kings
HistoryThese things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
Titus
Pauline EpistlesBut I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
1 Kings
HistoryTo preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThat thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
Psalms
PoetryWhy should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
Acts
History / LukeSon of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsEliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
2 Samuel
HistoryEdom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
Psalms
PoetryThey took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.
1 Samuel
HistoryHow fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.