And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThey are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTake counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHis offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesTherefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYour riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
James
General EpistlesAnd after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
Acts
HistoryAnd thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
Psalms
PoetryThen the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
Acts
History / LukeSo the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsOf the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD an heave offering in your generations.
Numbers
LawAnd Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.
Genesis
LawMy son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonA lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;
Proverbs
WisdomThou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
Genesis
Law / MosesHer 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 ProphetsThus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.