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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Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
1 Kings
HistoryThe LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.
Psalms
PoetryThen shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
Psalms
PoetryWhy art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms
PoetryAnd of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
Proverbs
WisdomWhen I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and her towns out of the hand of the Philistines.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
Matthew
GospelsMy beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis
Law / MosesWho hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSaying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commanded that ye should do: and the glory of the LORD shall appear unto you.
Leviticus
LawGive unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
Psalms
PoetryNeither shalt thou steal.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.