Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.
Genesis
LawFor this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesFear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesKeep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
Acts
History / LukeI would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Job
WisdomBut thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOn the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
Genesis
LawAnd the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhere the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIn that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBelshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Daniel
Major ProphetsWhy died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Job
Wisdom / JobI said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:
Numbers
LawAnd Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
Genesis
LawAnd thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.