And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThen answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers.
1 Chronicles
HistoryO come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
2 Samuel
HistoryCursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesA faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,
Acts
History / LukeThou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
Job
WisdomIf ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
John
Gospels / JohnI was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
Psalms
PoetrySo she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
Psalms
PoetryOne kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers
LawAlso the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: