I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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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.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulNeither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsLet mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
Psalms
PoetryThou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHis countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.
Matthew
GospelsAnd his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsA righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.
Joshua
HistoryAnd Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
Matthew
GospelsTherefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWho is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
Mark
GospelsIt is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThe trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.
Judges
History / SamuelThen Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king.