And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonI will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsI sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Solomon's Song
PoetryFor, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsLikewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBecause of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThen said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahHe sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOne cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
Exodus
LawThou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Job
Wisdom / JobTwo and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.
Genesis
Law / MosesAgainst whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWoe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahA righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Luke
GospelsAnd when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
1 Kings
HistoryThere is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,