Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
John
GospelsHearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
Psalms
PoetryAnd said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
Genesis
LawAnd it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
Ezra
HistoryAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Exodus
Law / MosesThus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosBehold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
Job
Wisdom / JobAs soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomHe saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Genesis
Law / MosesFor I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesThe ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsJesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.
John
GospelsI prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Numbers
LawAnd among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
Deuteronomy
LawNow, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.