Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesPlead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThat he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Job
WisdomIs it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
Esther
HistoryAs obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahDestruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
Job
WisdomNow therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNeither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Luke
Gospels / LukeTherefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
Micah
Minor ProphetsA fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families.
Joshua
HistoryMy friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
Judges
HistoryVerily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Matthew
GospelsBut Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.
Acts
History / LukeAll the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryThere is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.