If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesMy meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAll my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Job
WisdomFor the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
Genesis
Law / MosesThis is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day.
1 Samuel
HistoryKnow ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus
LawAnd they straightway left their nets, and followed him.
Matthew
GospelsAnd blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
Exodus
LawIf when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
John
GospelsAnd as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesSlothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.