Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philemon
Pauline Epistles / PaulHer filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
Numbers
Law / MosesBut I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut the word of God grew and multiplied.
Acts
HistoryThen said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.
2 Samuel
HistoryBehold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIf my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
Job
WisdomAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesBehold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok's son, and Jonathan Abiathar's son; and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear.
2 Samuel
HistoryInsomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
Hebrews
General EpistlesPraise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
Judges
HistoryIn the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHe raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.
1 Samuel
HistoryThen the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.
Leviticus
LawYour new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAs thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
John
GospelsBut let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?