Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
Deuteronomy
LawSaying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
Luke
GospelsHe taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
Job
WisdomKeep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonBut ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahMy people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaFor their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
Luke
GospelsBut grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
Deuteronomy
LawWhen the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:
Genesis
Law / MosesHis substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
Job
WisdomFor he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
Genesis
Law / MosesI opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
Acts
History / LukeTake ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
2 Kings
HistoryNow therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelYe shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
Leviticus
LawThat the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
Judges
History / SamuelPass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?