For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the LORD?
2 Chronicles
HistorySurely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,
Job
Wisdom / JobI will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
Job
WisdomHearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahIf the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Exodus
LawAnd they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.
Mark
GospelsJehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAfter him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNow will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSurely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesRehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
Ezra
HistoryThen said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God.
Joshua
HistoryAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraTherefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.