Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Psalms
PoetryFinally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahOf the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers
Law / MosesLet all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThat no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesThen Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
Acts
HistoryMy beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En-gedi.
Solomon's Song
PoetryBecause that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press.
Luke
GospelsAnd the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraTherefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThey are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahOne post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahMy mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.
2 Kings
HistoryThe word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTheir blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Psalms
PoetryWho leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;