When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
Luke
GospelsAwake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
Matthew
GospelsFor by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThey are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
Judges
History / SamuelWho art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahThe LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Numbers
LawLet the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
Genesis
LawAnd Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
Job
Wisdom / JobHe will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWith whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
Genesis
LawAnd this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.
1 Samuel
HistoryAs for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
Job
WisdomAnd when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
Genesis
Law / MosesLet Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, and two tenth deals to one ram,