But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonIn the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiAnd when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWhat shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
Psalms
PoetryHe that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Mark
GospelsLet us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
Numbers
Law / MosesHow much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Hebrews
General EpistlesThou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIt were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhen 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
Law / MosesWoe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsBut thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesTurn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
Matthew
GospelsAnd he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
Joshua
HistoryAnd judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHow long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
Deuteronomy
LawI saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.
Genesis
Law / MosesOf the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.