But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.
Mark
GospelsAnd they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThey cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
Psalms
PoetryAnd whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
Luke
GospelsHow much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
1 Samuel
HistoryYet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsJesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
1 Samuel
HistoryOr as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Job
WisdomAnd Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
Genesis
LawThe children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children of Nephusim,
Ezra
History / EzraTherefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsGood understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNow as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
Luke
Gospels / LukeMine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahNow there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.
Judges
History / SamuelI was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
Psalms
PoetryThen Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.