And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
Scripture to anchor the day. Search by book, person, theme, or keyword.
The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
2 Kings
HistoryAnd if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraNeither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulProve all things; hold fast that which is good.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesJehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.
Acts
HistoryWhere is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Job
WisdomWhich perished at En-dor: they became as dung for the earth.
Psalms
PoetryBut those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's.
Mark
Gospels / MarkOver against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanOne kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.
Exodus
Law / MosesBe ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelI will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThere cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
John
GospelsAnd thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.