And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
Job
Wisdom / JobFor a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
Leviticus
LawAnd the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsTake my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewMoreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD'S house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsI will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsLet Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTheir sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulOne law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.
Judges
HistoryAnd Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
1 Kings
HistoryIn their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Exodus
LawEven so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesO taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
Luke
GospelsAnd the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.