Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)
And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.
And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,
But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.
For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
