Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard.
1 Kings
HistoryAgainst him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsAnd Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThey have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Proverbs
WisdomThen Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
Job
WisdomAnd thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan.
Joshua
HistoryThen David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.
Nehemiah
HistoryThe inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much.
2 Kings
HistoryThe kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.
1 Kings
HistoryFor that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
James
General Epistles / JamesAs for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
Job
WisdomThere was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
John
GospelsAnd I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
Leviticus
LawAnd Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.
Luke
GospelsThen gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.