And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
Mark
GospelsBut to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
Acts
History / LukeAccording to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWe have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahOn the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, did offer:
Numbers
Law / MosesFor this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Psalms
PoetryThen said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
Exodus
LawSalute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibon-gad.
Numbers
LawAnd I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Revelation
ApocalypticBy reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
Psalms
PoetryMake ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTook branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
Acts
History / LukeBut Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
Acts
HistoryAnd he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
1 Kings
HistoryThat pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name: