And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThou 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
PoetryAnd she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.
Judges
HistoryWho then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
Matthew
GospelsThen shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen said the high priest, Are these things so?
Acts
HistoryThey cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
Psalms
PoetryWherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThat be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Genesis
LawThen hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
1 Kings
HistorySo that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
Genesis
LawWherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersA wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?
Mark
GospelsAnd it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
Joshua
HistoryAnd when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;
Acts
HistoryNevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesSurely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;