Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaI remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHe delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
Psalms
PoetryFor the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
Luke
GospelsAnd the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahNeither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulNotwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulLet thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahFor the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
Matthew
GospelsYe men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
Acts
HistoryAnd I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.
Exodus
Law / MosesIf I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
Job
WisdomThis wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
James
General Epistles / JamesFrom whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
James
General Epistles / JamesThou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
Nehemiah
HistoryMy tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)