And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
Job
Wisdom / JobBut the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
Mark
GospelsTill we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesIf any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Genesis
LawThe fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
Luke
Gospels / LukeOf the sons of Uzziel; Michah the first, and Jesiah the second.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesWho can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
Numbers
LawAnd shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.
Nehemiah
HistoryHe giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersMy soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job
WisdomAnd these are the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,
1 Chronicles
HistoryMy son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonO generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
2 Chronicles
HistoryHeshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,
Joshua
HistoryAnd the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
2 Kings
HistoryFor the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWhen thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.