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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Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
Luke
GospelsI will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHe that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
John
GospelsAnd he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
Exodus
LawCast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
2 Kings
HistoryThen shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukThe priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
Ezra
HistoryAnd shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.
Acts
HistoryTheir feet are swift to shed blood:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAsk of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Psalms
PoetryFor the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonYea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
Psalms
PoetryThou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Exodus
Law / MosesThen are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersOr if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Numbers
Law / MosesLet thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.