But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
Acts
HistoryRemember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
John
GospelsAnd the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelZiph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
Joshua
History / JoshuaFor, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
Judges
HistoryThey spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSo the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
Matthew
GospelsAnd a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanI have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
Psalms
PoetryIf brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesNow therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahJohn bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
Genesis
Law / MosesTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielYe eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
Genesis
LawBy stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
Acts
HistoryBlessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThey shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.