So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
Numbers
LawFor God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
Job
Wisdom / JobYea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
Psalms
PoetryFor we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
Numbers
LawThis witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.
Mark
Gospels / MarkHear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
Judges
History / SamuelBehold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
Exodus
Law / MosesLet the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,
Ezra
History / EzraThen Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Matthew
GospelsBut Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryFrom thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
Mark
GospelsCome now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
Genesis
LawMany pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahEvery branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
John
Gospels / JohnPeter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.
Matthew
GospelsAnd rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.