It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew
GospelsO Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Matthew
GospelsBlessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThese are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD.
Numbers
LawMake bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.
1 Samuel
HistoryBut the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
Judges
HistoryAnd he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
Genesis
LawAnd the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;
Matthew
GospelsThy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
Genesis
Law / MosesOne golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
Numbers
Law / MosesSo ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Numbers
LawAnd the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.
Leviticus
LawAnd Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
Genesis
LawHe walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,