But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHe divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
2 Kings
HistoryAfterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIf this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
John
GospelsAnd unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielBut a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
Titus
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
Matthew
GospelsFor this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
Hebrews
General EpistlesMy words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
Job
WisdomBut there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.
Numbers
LawThere is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
Genesis
LawAnd Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore unto him, Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I am not.
John
Gospels / JohnThese all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownBut when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,