Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.
Judges
History / SamuelWhereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
Acts
HistoryYour carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
Numbers
Law / MosesThus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.
2 Kings
HistoryNone calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
Numbers
LawTo call passengers who go right on their ways:
Proverbs
WisdomHowbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
Acts
History / LukeAnd the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.
Numbers
LawAnd it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAlso in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSo the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land.
Daniel
Major ProphetsI will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaThe lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNo man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
John
Gospels / JohnStrengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
Colossians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThat they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThis is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.