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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Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
Matthew
GospelsAnd his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
Mark
GospelsAnd they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
Psalms
PoetryFor they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownBut unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
Luke
GospelsIf it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
Psalms
PoetryAnd why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
Numbers
LawAnd the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
Genesis
LawBut as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
Deuteronomy
LawIf thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBehold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThat the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
Titus
Pauline EpistlesTherefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
1 Samuel
HistoryCanst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
Job
WisdomAnd he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;
Leviticus
Law / MosesHe sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNow therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:
1 Kings
HistoryBut when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.