Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
Matthew
GospelsIf any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:
1 Kings
HistoryI speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulBreach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
Leviticus
LawFrom thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,
Numbers
LawAnd surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
Job
WisdomJesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Leviticus
Law / MosesShall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
John
GospelsTherefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
Numbers
Law / MosesThe Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
John
GospelsHis sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
Genesis
LawAnd ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.
Numbers
LawTherefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.
Judges
History / SamuelAll the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephoth-maim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
Joshua
History / JoshuaLooking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
Psalms
PoetryThat I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.
Psalms
PoetryBut the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.