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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He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
Psalms
PoetryAnd every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThey shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahOf Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
Numbers
LawA light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
Luke
GospelsFor the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesOr if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
Leviticus
LawHell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
Proverbs
WisdomAnd when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThey are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Hebrews
General 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 Prophets / EzekielAnd when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWhen thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
Matthew
GospelsOr with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Judges
HistoryCasting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,
Mark
Gospels / MarkThen Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.
2 Samuel
HistoryBut howsoever, said he, let me run. And he said unto him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThe mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries: