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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Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.
Acts
HistoryAnd forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahMy beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
Solomon's Song
PoetryLet thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
2 Samuel
HistoryAgain, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
Matthew
GospelsAnd I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielEphraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
Exodus
LawTherefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
Genesis
Law / MosesRejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with them.
Mark
GospelsApply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.
Judges
HistoryNicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
John
Gospels / JohnBut there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.
Judges
HistoryWhen they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.
Luke
GospelsAnd his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: