And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
Leviticus
LawSo the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass on the day when the LORD spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt,
Exodus
LawAnd I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
Acts
History / LukeAll these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
Ezra
HistoryAnd thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsLet a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
Mark
GospelsThus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsHer 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 ProphetsOn that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
Esther
HistoryHe sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Psalms
PoetryAnd you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulJoshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.
Genesis
LawArt thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe:
Luke
GospelsSo it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.