And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.
1 Kings
HistoryFor my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIn whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesThe foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
Proverbs
WisdomOh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.
Numbers
LawWhen ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;
Leviticus
LawO give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
PoetryNow concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulPlead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThe elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;
2 John
General EpistlesAnd if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
Matthew
GospelsBecause he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.
Joshua
HistoryAnd their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram;
Numbers
Law / MosesHowbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahPhilip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
John
GospelsHe cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
Job
WisdomThou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAll these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.