100 Bible Verses About Spiritual Discipline

And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.

How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept thy law.

In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

For so was it charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.

My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.

And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.

And commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the Lord that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the Lord.

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law;

The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, those deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.

I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.

I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.

Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.

It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:

And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the Lord your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:

So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.

God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the Lord their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the Lord their God.

Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.

O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?

For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?

And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.

For because ye did it not at the first, the Lord our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.

And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

The Lord hath heard my supplication; the Lord will receive my prayer.

For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people,

Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.

When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.

I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.

Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.

Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.

Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.

The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak.

So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.

O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.