The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
2 Kings
HistoryFor strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryRivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.
Luke
GospelsI said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonIt was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
Luke
GospelsAnd herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
2 Kings
HistoryHe delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Genesis
LawMarriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownBetter is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomFor it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnBut the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
Job
Wisdom / JobLikewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?