I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
Matthew
GospelsThey take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahLift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIs not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Job
WisdomAnd when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
Genesis
LawThe floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsI pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Deuteronomy
LawUnto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Titus
Pauline EpistlesAnd she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
Genesis
Law / MosesRemember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Deuteronomy
LawThen asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
John
GospelsAnd now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
1 John
General EpistlesAnd he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
John
GospelsHenceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.