Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsLet my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
Genesis
LawAs for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaBut if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:
Judges
History / SamuelAnd it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Genesis
LawWomen received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.
Deuteronomy
LawO LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.
Joshua
HistoryAnd in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles
HistoryUphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
Psalms
PoetryAnd now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
Haggai
Minor ProphetsBut now are they many members, yet but one body.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulI say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Luke
GospelsAnd the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.
Acts
History / LukeBut I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBecause the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnWith whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
Genesis
Law / MosesYe shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaI will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.