Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Destruction and misery are in their ways:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraJesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
John
Gospels / JohnBut he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.
2 Kings
HistoryWas it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
1 Kings
HistoryI am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
John
Gospels / JohnThen said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
Nehemiah
HistoryFor the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
Acts
HistoryThen came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:
Ezra
History / EzraFor if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
James
General Epistles / JamesThey have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd of the sons of Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
Ezra
HistoryThen the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Judges
History / SamuelWith him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
Numbers
Law / MosesFor my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
1 Kings
HistoryThou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSo shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.