Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Exodus
LawBut when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:
Judges
HistoryAnd he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryAlso I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.
Numbers
LawTherefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
John
GospelsIn the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
Exodus
LawMine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
Psalms
PoetrySo the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Proverbs
WisdomBoth young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
Psalms
PoetryNeither 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 the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD.
Joshua
History / JoshuaBut when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
Matthew
GospelsBe ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulForasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.