He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanArise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
Exodus
LawBut the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThey are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;
Luke
GospelsBut when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
Acts
History / LukeAnd thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd 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
LawAnd oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,
Exodus
LawBut if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
2 Peter
General EpistlesSo the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.
2 Kings
HistoryIf Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak?
Numbers
Law / MosesWhen he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
Acts
HistoryAnd he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
Judges
HistoryAnd of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTherefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
Numbers
Law / MosesTherefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.