And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonKnow ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBinding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
Genesis
Law / MosesFor there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.
Numbers
LawNow the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
Deuteronomy
LawI have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
1 Kings
HistoryIn whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesPraise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.
Psalms
PoetryOur little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:
Numbers
Law / MosesBut whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Proverbs
WisdomFor though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
Exodus
LawDavid also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
Matthew
GospelsPaul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
LawThen set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSo the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.