But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Job
WisdomAnd he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
Genesis
LawThe same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.
Luke
GospelsAnd Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd one of the same place answered and said, But who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhen he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
Acts
History / LukeBut he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
Matthew
GospelsAnd he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.
Matthew
GospelsThen Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
Leviticus
LawAnd the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.
Genesis
LawI have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWho, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesAlso Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
Esther
History / MordecaiBut when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
Mark
Gospels / MarkSaying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
Mark
GospelsAnd above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
Joshua
HistoryThe LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.