It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahAnd he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
John
Gospels / JohnSo the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIs any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
James
General EpistlesGo say to them, Get you into your tents again.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.
Acts
HistoryI was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
Genesis
Law / MosesWhose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesMoreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
Mark
GospelsThe simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
Proverbs
WisdomBecause thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewMoreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.
1 Samuel
HistorySurely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Psalms
Poetry / David and others(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
Judges
History / SamuelAgainst him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.