And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThese are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their dukes.
Genesis
LawAnd Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
Esther
HistoryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesOur fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
Judges
HistoryHe will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
Job
WisdomAnd it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
Leviticus
Law / MosesTheir heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
Ezra
HistoryThe secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Numbers
Law / MosesThat the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
Judges
HistoryThese are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesWhen they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsI laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.