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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But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Exodus
LawAnd when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.
Acts
History / LukeBecause thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
Deuteronomy
LawBecause my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis
LawAnd Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
Psalms
PoetryThy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Acts
History / LukeIf a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy
LawThe mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.
Numbers
LawAnd Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
Genesis
Law / MosesBehold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
Deuteronomy
LawO LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAs is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesEven in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.