And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThen contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
Nehemiah
HistoryIn the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:
Esther
History / MordecaiNow therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Acts
HistoryAnd again, whom should I serve? should I not serve in the presence of his son? as I have served in thy father's presence, so will I be in thy presence.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNow they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraNeither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielDuke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
Genesis
Law / MosesLet us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsTherefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Luke
GospelsDo ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTake you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahLest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.