It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew
GospelsSurely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhen I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalms
PoetryAnd as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,
Acts
History / LukeBut yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelPraise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
Judges
HistoryThe waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
Job
Wisdom / JobThese were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhen they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus
LawTill a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Proverbs
WisdomBut David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
1 Chronicles
HistorySurely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.
Genesis
LawAnd Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.