Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Jude
General Epistles / JudeHe made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalms
PoetryFor every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewIn that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it shall turn to you for a testimony.
Luke
GospelsAnd they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
Judges
HistoryFor the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
Hebrews
General EpistlesI will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Genesis
Law / MosesWhen therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
Acts
HistoryAnd they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.
Genesis
LawThey were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.
1 Chronicles
HistorySing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence.
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.