For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd by weight he gave gold for the tables of shewbread, for every table; and likewise silver for the tables of silver:
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIf a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:
Exodus
Law / MosesUnto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
Job
WisdomAnd there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.
1 Kings
HistoryFor it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
Hebrews
General EpistlesAnd Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms
PoetryPublish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosYea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
Luke
GospelsThorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Proverbs
WisdomNow when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
Ezra
HistoryFear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
Matthew
GospelsHowbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
Numbers
LawThen Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSo he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.