And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Joshua
History / JoshuaUnderstand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,
2 Samuel
HistoryLet the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThe neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
John
Gospels / JohnThe bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
Job
Wisdom / JobMoreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
Exodus
Law / MosesOur soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersO LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Caleb the son of Hezron begat children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth: her sons are these; Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Genesis
LawBut ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
Exodus
Law / MosesThen said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd when even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and he alone on the land.
Mark
GospelsAnd it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before.
Joshua
HistoryFor circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.