But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:
Leviticus
LawAnd Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
Mark
Gospels / MarkWoe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Luke
GospelsAnd his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
Matthew
GospelsHe that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
1 Kings
HistoryFor it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.
Genesis
Law / MosesNeither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
2 Chronicles
HistoryA time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
Genesis
LawLet the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
James
General Epistles / JamesFor the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
2 Samuel
HistoryBut let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBehold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosIf his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
Exodus
LawAnd the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,