And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
Job
Wisdom / JobNow therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Acts
HistoryIs it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIf grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahEven to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThe haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersA prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Proverbs
WisdomThe iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaNevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
Joshua
HistoryAnd the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraTo make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
Luke
GospelsThis image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWho is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiNow these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Mark
Gospels / MarkLet the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
Law / MosesGive, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.