Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.
Numbers
LawThe young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
Job
WisdomAnd the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
Genesis
LawJerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which the LORD hath commanded, that ye should do them.
Exodus
Law / MosesRemove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
Psalms
PoetryThat all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
1 Samuel
HistoryIn Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
Leviticus
LawYea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
1 Kings
HistoryHear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Job
WisdomI will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahGive me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess:
1 Chronicles
HistoryEven all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsRid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBecause it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
Mark
Gospels / MarkHe that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.