A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsBut he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewSow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThe LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAfter that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken unto her.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanShall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Job
Wisdom / JobThou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
Psalms
PoetryConsider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
Psalms
PoetryIn the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsMy father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
Genesis
LawAnd this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
1 John
General EpistlesWhen Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd at Ziklag, and at Mekonah, and in the villages thereof,
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.
2 Samuel
HistoryI also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.