Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut 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.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.
Luke
GospelsAnd it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesNor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsJehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
1 Kings
HistoryThis is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
Leviticus
LawAnd they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor neither did his brethren believe in him.
John
GospelsBut the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesEven all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHis prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
2 Chronicles
HistoryHe will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
Numbers
LawBut I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewI create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
Leviticus
LawAt the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.