For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.
Acts
History / LukeAnd he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
Genesis
LawIf they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
2 Chronicles
HistoryOr for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third part of an hin of oil.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul's daughter loved him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Amos
Minor ProphetsCan a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
Leviticus
LawKeep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Proverbs
WisdomFor thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesThe children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.
Ezra
History / EzraFor bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.
1 Kings
HistoryA bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd I gave Gilead unto Machir.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHe will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.