For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.
1 Kings
HistoryThen the king's servants, which were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?
Esther
History / MordecaiNow I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
John
GospelsAnd it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he worshipped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesSacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
Psalms
PoetryAnd they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
2 Samuel
HistoryThen spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
Amos
Minor ProphetsThus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhen Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
John
Gospels / JohnIn a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
Job
WisdomOnly the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAs many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulPassing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
Proverbs
WisdomAnd I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFrom the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.
Exodus
LawAnd Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
Luke
GospelsAnd in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight.