If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
Mark
GospelsBut I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosHow long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Psalms
PoetryA voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahSubmit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James
General EpistlesBut when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.
Mark
Gospels / MarkThey took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
Numbers
LawAnd the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
Esther
History / MordecaiAnd the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
Joshua
HistoryNeither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
Genesis
LawWere they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsMine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
2 Samuel
HistoryYe shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Matthew
GospelsAnd if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.