And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
John
Gospels / JohnFor yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.
2 Samuel
HistoryBehold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
1 Kings
HistoryNebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
Daniel
Major ProphetsCome, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
Solomon's Song
PoetryFor a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,
Joshua
HistoryAnd I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielDeliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
Matthew
GospelsDead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
Job
WisdomA sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
Genesis
LawAnd thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
Joshua
History / JoshuaWhom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
Acts
HistorySing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahPull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.
Psalms
PoetryThe words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: