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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Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
Matthew
GospelsHe brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
John
GospelsAnd he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryThen saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThese words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
John
GospelsBehold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
Genesis
Law / MosesNow I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesHe that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
Matthew
GospelsShammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,
2 Samuel
HistoryFrom Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.
Leviticus
LawFor mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.