Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalms
PoetryAnd, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there four whole months.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.
Judges
History / SamuelBut if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.
Acts
History / LukeJehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.
2 Kings
HistoryIs it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
Numbers
Law / MosesCome against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBehold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
Job
Wisdom / JobIn the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesFor the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:
Leviticus
LawAnd Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
Joshua
History / JoshuaAll they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.