Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThat ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Acts
History / LukeFor I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesWherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraFor what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?
Genesis
LawHe maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
Numbers
LawHow is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
Matthew
GospelsAnd this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
John
Gospels / JohnIs it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?
Job
WisdomAnd the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
Revelation
ApocalypticThere shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
Deuteronomy
LawTherefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
John
Gospels / JohnVerily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers
Law / MosesThou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
2 Peter
General Epistles / PeterBut Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAll the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.