Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it.
1 Chronicles
HistorySo Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
Joshua
HistoryAnd the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.
Judges
HistoryAnd if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
Leviticus
LawThou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAh sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThrough the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNow Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelBut that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things:
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesOh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalms
PoetryMoreover the sons of Obed-edom were, Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.
1 Samuel
HistoryAll her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSurely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
Psalms
PoetryAnd if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
Exodus
LawI said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;