(As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsFor my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
Joshua
HistoryAnd that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
Nehemiah
HistoryThus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house.
1 Chronicles
HistoryNow these are the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, to wit, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
Exodus
Law / MosesThat he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIt seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
Acts
History / LukeAnd the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons' due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
Matthew
GospelsThen hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
James
General EpistlesWhich when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.
Acts
HistoryFor if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulUmmah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.
Joshua
History / JoshuaSurely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
2 Kings
History / JeremiahElihu also proceeded, and said,
Job
WisdomIn the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.
Numbers
LawSo also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son: