And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesKnowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
James
General EpistlesYet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulSpeak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesIs not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Job
Wisdom / JobWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhat shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?
Esther
History / MordecaiFor to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesSo they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSon of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
Genesis
Law / MosesBe not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBut the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelAs my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;