For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;
Mark
Gospels / MarkSpeak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation.
Leviticus
LawAnd old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThen goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Luke
GospelsAnd when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThere was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
Acts
HistoryVow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
Psalms
PoetryScornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonI came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Luke
GospelsEven the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.
Leviticus
LawFor the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIn the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus
LawJudah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.