And the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHave ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.
2 Chronicles
HistoryHe hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
Job
WisdomThus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,
John
GospelsThen the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
Judges
History / SamuelThe fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles
HistoryOn the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
John
GospelsFor in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Acts
HistoryBut he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
John
GospelsNow therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.
1 Samuel
HistoryThis we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
Joshua
HistorySome also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThey turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Job
WisdomWherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesWhich was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
Hebrews
General EpistlesIf the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
Leviticus
LawAnd when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.
Judges
HistorySo he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.
Acts
HistoryIf the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.