And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
Psalms
PoetryO Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsFor as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.
1 Samuel
HistoryThat 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
HistoryYea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonGive the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMy son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
Exodus
LawLet me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders.
Numbers
Law / MosesSo the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.
Numbers
Law / MosesOh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalms
PoetryBut ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
Acts
History / LukeFor God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites:
1 Chronicles
HistoryThey gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
Numbers
LawYe shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?
Acts
HistoryCease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
Proverbs
WisdomBut the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: