As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
1 Kings
HistoryVaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
Ezra
HistoryFor thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHim therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnElse, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
Exodus
Law / MosesThen saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewShall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
Exodus
LawSurely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Psalms
PoetryO inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsSurely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
Daniel
Major ProphetsBut and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
1 John
General EpistlesOr if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Numbers
Law / MosesYe shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
Deuteronomy
LawThat make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.