If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNow at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him.
Mark
GospelsBut now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownFor thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThe lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Job
WisdomBut it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahAnd of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
Acts
HistoryIf thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Beth-lehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Matthew
GospelsTo keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
Obadiah
Minor ProphetsNow king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSo Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsHe that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Psalms
PoetryAnd the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
Leviticus
LawAnd it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
Exodus
LawAnd pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.