For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThe father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
Numbers
LawNow therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesI hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.
Exodus
LawTheir sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
Psalms
PoetryLo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Psalms
PoetryAnd at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
Deuteronomy
LawWas not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
James
General Epistles / JamesBut now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
Numbers
LawAnd after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.
Judges
History / SamuelYe have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
Deuteronomy
LawThen these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielIn the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Hebrews
General EpistlesSix days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
Exodus
LawAnd afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.