But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.
Joshua
HistoryThe LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
Psalms
PoetryFor what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Exodus
LawThe best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahGod looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahWhoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Proverbs
WisdomWhen thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsYet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWho is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesKeep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
Exodus
LawAnd it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:
Genesis
LawThat I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
Mark
GospelsAnd brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,