If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
Amos
Minor ProphetsA man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Proverbs
WisdomThat the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he left all, rose up, and followed him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhen Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThey are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
Job
WisdomBut Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
Matthew
GospelsIn the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / Jeremiah(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahOur father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.
Numbers
Law / MosesHe that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
Matthew
GospelsKnowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
James
General Epistles / JamesThen Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWho by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownBehold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsA fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonIt is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
Mark
Gospels / MarkHe that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.