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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I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAs for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahGlorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
1 Samuel
HistoryWithal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
Revelation
ApocalypticNevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
Numbers
LawAnd they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying,
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahAnd David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
Matthew
GospelsAnd it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWhere is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahJudge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTherefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIf his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
Genesis
Law / MosesNow in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
Esther
HistoryInstead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
Exodus
Law / MosesTo teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.