And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Job
WisdomHowbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd when Shaul was dead, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraPray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
2 Chronicles
HistoryNow the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Luke
GospelsAll the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonIf I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
1 John
General EpistlesBrethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAll those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,
Numbers
Law / MosesFor I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBy terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTherefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahAnd now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
Exodus
LawLet the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;