Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWhen the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
Judges
HistoryAnd the men answered her, Our life for your's, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
Joshua
HistoryFor he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name.
Luke
Gospels(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThen Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
Esther
HistoryAll the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
Luke
GospelsTherefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsShe is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Proverbs
WisdomLet them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
Acts
History / LukeAnd ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
Leviticus
Law / MosesSo Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
2 Kings
HistoryFor our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.
Genesis
Law / MosesAwake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraJetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.