And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesI will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaSome men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesBut the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
Judges
History / SamuelThere is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
Ruth
HistorySurely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhich my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Beth-el, and in their villages,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahTo whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLet there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
Luke
GospelsTo translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beer-sheba.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.