Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;
(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.
The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai,
And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,
Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:
But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of your's become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
