For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahReprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Proverbs
WisdomSing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
1 Kings
HistorySo am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
Daniel
Major ProphetsSurely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
Numbers
LawAnd if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it before the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?
Mark
GospelsAnd some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:
Ezra
History / EzraAnd when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
Exodus
LawIf he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side.
Mark
GospelsAnd all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahGod shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
Psalms
PoetryNow these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;
Ezra
History / EzraBaana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,