But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryLet us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.
Exodus
LawThe LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIs Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWoe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not.
Joshua
History / JoshuaWhat time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
Psalms
PoetryLet all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersCursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
LawMoreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTreasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs
WisdomBehold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
Judges
HistoryThat upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
Matthew
GospelsAnd for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Numbers
Law / MosesThey kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;