How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNot to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSo will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
Acts
HistoryAnd David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelJavan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraNow I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
John
Gospels / JohnHarim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBut Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:
1 Samuel
HistoryThine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulLet me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the Philistines yet again spread themselves abroad in the valley.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
Exodus
LawFor destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
Job
WisdomFor it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosLet us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnOtherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.