And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThat thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
Genesis
Law / MosesMy covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Psalms
PoetryFor the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahYet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
Philemon
Pauline EpistlesAnd I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahTake ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
Mark
Gospels / MarkSay unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAwake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAs coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.
Acts
History / LukeO God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
Psalms
PoetryBut as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.
Judges
History / SamuelFinally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesFor man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
Genesis
LawCorrection is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.
Mark
GospelsThe troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.