But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWhile I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?
Judges
HistoryAnd the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahNow in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
2 Chronicles
HistoryThus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBecause thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThen straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
Acts
History / LukeAnd in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsSet the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaWhat man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
Psalms
PoetryThen they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
Psalms
PoetryMoreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,
1 Chronicles
HistorySurely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
Numbers
Law / MosesUntil the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.
Judges
HistoryIn those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.