As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.
Acts
History / LukeLooking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2 Peter
General EpistlesAnd the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
Joshua
HistoryAnd God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
Acts
History / LukeAnd Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
Numbers
Law / MosesThou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Genesis
LawAnd Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;
2 Samuel
HistoryFor all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
2 Samuel
HistoryHe hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Psalms
PoetryWhen Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
Genesis
Law / MosesNeither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal.
Exodus
LawHe that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThe grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAmong the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.
Psalms
PoetryAnd a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:
Numbers
Law / MosesAfter this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThen Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,
2 Chronicles
HistoryTherefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
Micah
Minor ProphetsAnd the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.