Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.
1 Kings
HistoryOpen rebuke is better than secret love.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThere is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraLORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.
Ezra
History / EzraOf Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
Genesis
LawAnd Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis
Law / MosesOr let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnBut ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahI also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
Judges
History / SamuelNow therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
Judges
HistoryThere be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
Proverbs
WisdomAnd he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeFor this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
Titus
Pauline EpistlesMoreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expenses be given unto these men, that they be not hindered.
Ezra
HistoryAnd them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men;
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAn evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonWhen the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.