But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
Proverbs
WisdomSo they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
Acts
HistoryTo cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
Job
WisdomFor, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsBut the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?
2 Samuel
HistoryThe light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
Luke
GospelsIf the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
Psalms
PoetryAnd the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
1 Samuel
HistoryO LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSee, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
Exodus
LawAnd they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.
John
GospelsSome of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
Judges
History / SamuelOf the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers
Law / MosesWherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahGather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.