100 Bible Verses About Spiritual Disciplines

And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.

Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.

And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which is in the side of the ephod inward.

And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.

Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:

Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.

Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.

And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the Lord.

Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.

And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,

Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the Lord, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.

The Lord is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.

He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.

And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.

It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.

The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre; as the Lord commanded Moses.

But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.

And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail.

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word.

Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.

I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delight.

And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

But did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

Seek the Lord, and his strength: seek his face evermore.

Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?

This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.

Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

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

Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

And Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.

And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.

Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;

When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.

It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.

Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord, and teach me thy judgments.

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

And the Lord spake unto me, saying,

Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.

Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.

Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.

He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God.

But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.

Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.

And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.

I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O Lord, put me not to shame.

If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

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

I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.

Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the Lord; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;

And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.

They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.