But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
Luke
Gospels / LukeShe crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
Proverbs
WisdomTherefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Matthew
GospelsYe that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God,
Psalms
PoetryThat I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
1 Kings
HistoryFor I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
2 Kings
HistoryJesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
John
GospelsThen Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBut after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
Ezra
HistoryWhich are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Matthew
GospelsBlessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryThe words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.
Esther
HistoryIf then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThe new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAs the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Solomon's Song
PoetryNow these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd 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.