Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesIt is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
Proverbs
Wisdom / Solomon(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;
Deuteronomy
LawWho hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.
1 Chronicles
HistoryI have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsSo Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBut every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
Numbers
Law / MosesThus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryMen shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSo now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Genesis
LawAnd these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Proverbs
WisdomWhether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?
Mark
GospelsThirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
Ezra
History / EzraThen said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsSo they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son.
Judges
History / SamuelTherefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.
Daniel
Major ProphetsHe seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
Acts
HistoryTwo tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.