Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhat mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
Judges
History / SamuelThen said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBe glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
John
Gospels / JohnI made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
Numbers
LawWhatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
Leviticus
Law / MosesEven men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
Numbers
LawA good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
2 Kings
HistoryAnd when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
Acts
HistoryAnd if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
Judges
HistoryAnd let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
Esther
HistoryAnd changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.