Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,
Joshua
HistoryThey said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
Psalms
PoetryMoreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
Deuteronomy
LawThou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy
LawI know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
Mark
GospelsAnd shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
John
Gospels / JohnPut on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesMany, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBehold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsO clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
Psalms
PoetryThy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomOf Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
Numbers
Law / MosesIf one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsBut the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
2 Chronicles
HistoryI suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesSo he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
1 Kings
HistoryOne kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesO that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Job
WisdomAnd they could not answer him again to these things.
Luke
Gospels / LukeMen groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
Job
WisdomFor the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.