And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
Mark
GospelsThe children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWhen my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsI made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
Psalms
PoetryI have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahBut ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
Exodus
LawAnd Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.
Leviticus
LawBut be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsO house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSo now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
Judges
History / SamuelSo 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.
Numbers
LawFor we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Esther
HistoryEvil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTo every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: