Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersJehoshaphat 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
History / JeremiahOnly the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD'S.
Leviticus
Law / MosesForbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
Judges
History / SamuelO that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Job
WisdomThese things I command you, that ye love one another.
John
GospelsThat thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.
Luke
GospelsAnd the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThink not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew
GospelsAnd as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.
Exodus
LawAnd if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
Judges
HistoryFor if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulHe that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
John
Gospels / JohnBut (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesIn that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsLet their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
Psalms
PoetryFor all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.