They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHe rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
Psalms
PoetryWhat man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
Deuteronomy
LawBy these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraForty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
Genesis
Law / MosesLittle children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.
John
Gospels / JohnEnvyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHe that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonTherefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
John
GospelsAnd Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.
Mark
GospelsAnd one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
Numbers
LawThe king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAfterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesTherefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.