Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBeside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
Numbers
LawAfter my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Revelation
ApocalypticWhen I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukJesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelJudah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
Nehemiah
HistoryBless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD, O house of Aaron:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsFor yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Genesis
LawAnd Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
Proverbs
WisdomThen Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
Mark
GospelsAnd Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
2 Chronicles
HistorySo when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
John
GospelsAnd for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
Numbers
Law / MosesMen shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Job
Wisdom / JobSurely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.