Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIs not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him: therefore he lodged there again.
Judges
History / SamuelFor to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesMoreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
John
GospelsAnd when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.
Numbers
LawBlessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.
Psalms
PoetryThus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahIt is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsYet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielHow many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Job
Wisdom / JobNow the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
Matthew
GospelsBut what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThis thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD'S anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.
Genesis
LawThen Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?
Acts
HistoryAnd a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.