The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
John
GospelsMy hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
Exodus
LawThey abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
Job
WisdomHow long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
Ezra
History / EzraNow Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;
Acts
History / LukeWherefore he said unto the messengers of Ben-hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSo Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.
Joshua
History / JoshuaHe measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsGo say to them, Get you into your tents again.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWhosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Joshua
HistoryWho is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesCome, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOn that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
Esther
History / MordecaiThey part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.