This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
Psalms
PoetryWhen thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesEven to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWhose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
1 Chronicles
HistoryI will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen said Saul to his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. So Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhen the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
Job
Wisdom / JobA people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
Deuteronomy
LawNow the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:
Joshua
HistoryAnd all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesCome, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Proverbs
WisdomThe sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomSound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Titus
Pauline EpistlesHow great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiSo they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
Exodus
Law / MosesEvery bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.