It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
Genesis
LawAnd that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
Numbers
LawAlso the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.
Judges
History / SamuelThen shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
2 Kings
HistoryAnd when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
Genesis
Law / MosesBut all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewRestore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
Genesis
LawBut this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownFor all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Genesis
LawAnd the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
Luke
Gospels / LukeNow in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.