And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
Judges
History / SamuelOpen rebuke is better than secret love.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.
Acts
History / LukeLikewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.
Leviticus
Law / MosesWhich were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
Genesis
LawBut it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
Deuteronomy
LawHear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
Proverbs
WisdomSing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraKeep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Psalms
PoetryI remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
Psalms
PoetryFor he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanSo the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanPhinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
Deuteronomy
LawThen released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewMy father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBlessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
Psalms
PoetryBut as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Genesis
LawIt is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.