But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
Job
Wisdom / JobDoubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
Genesis
Law / MosesLaadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the famine was sore in the land.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
Exodus
LawTherefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBehold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe children of Hashum, three hundred twenty and eight.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelI will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
Psalms
PoetryAnd thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
Psalms
PoetryWhose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
Titus
Pauline EpistlesSell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
Luke
GospelsThe humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjath-sepher.