For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
Job
WisdomThou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)
Numbers
LawAnd Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
Matthew
GospelsNow therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.
1 Kings
HistoryI will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
Psalms
PoetryBut I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
Exodus
LawHis own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.
Leviticus
LawThat confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsHe hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
Job
WisdomAnd if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewArt thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
Nahum
Minor ProphetsSo neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.
Judges
HistoryFor all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
Numbers
Law / MosesWhich, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.
Matthew
GospelsNow David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAwake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
Psalms
PoetryDeliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
Psalms
PoetryBe ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.