And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThe princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
Numbers
LawHe that hateth me hateth my Father also.
John
Gospels / JohnThe measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Job
Wisdom / JobAs the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
Psalms
PoetryBut if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,
Ruth
History / SamuelFor who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
John
GospelsAs many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnFor though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesHe sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Psalms
PoetryIsrael hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThat I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWhich have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:
3 John
General Epistles / JohnWherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThen will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHowl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahHe said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
Luke
Gospels / LukeHe measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielTherefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?