When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.
Judges
HistoryMine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.
Genesis
Law / MosesTherefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosI will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
Psalms
PoetryThere is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelOnly that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
Judges
HistoryBut the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
Job
Wisdom / JobLet them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Judges
HistoryAnd the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
Leviticus
LawBut the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
Matthew
GospelsI will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosThe wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.