And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
Job
Wisdom / JobI shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?
Joshua
History / JoshuaI will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
Psalms
PoetryTurn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTheir Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahGreet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThe words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThey return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Psalms
PoetryAnd after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;
Ezra
History / EzraWhy do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhen I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
Deuteronomy
LawBut with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownTherefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.
Ezra
History / EzraMoreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
Psalms
PoetrySo the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsDid I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.