And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Judges
History / SamuelBut every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAwake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
Psalms
PoetryAnd how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
Leviticus
LawBut when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWhen the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
Psalms
PoetrySo David brought not the ark home to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
1 Chronicles
HistoryIn the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:
Genesis
LawNeither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielUntil the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
Acts
HistoryBehold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsMost men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
Proverbs
WisdomWherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
James
General Epistles / JamesSimon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
Judges
HistoryThese are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
Genesis
LawWhich yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi;
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsThe gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?