Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.
Judges
History / SamuelThe dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew.
Luke
GospelsBut Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.
Acts
HistorySo this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielThen Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
Esther
HistoryI will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Psalms
PoetrySo all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?
Luke
GospelsAnd Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong men, eighteen.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHe answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Matthew
GospelsHow forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Job
WisdomAnd I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
Numbers
LawNow if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulIf thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.