And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Nehemiah
HistoryThat no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?
2 Samuel
HistoryThen went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
Judges
History / SamuelNow when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers
LawAnd they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
Numbers
LawAnd Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahSo is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Luke
GospelsAnd one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielTo turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.
Acts
HistoryI will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
Numbers
LawAvoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Proverbs
WisdomTahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.
1 Chronicles
HistoryWhose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.