As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Acts
HistoryWhoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
Exodus
LawIs it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
Numbers
LawBut have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTherefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
Acts
HistoryAnd he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
Exodus
LawAnd Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
Exodus
LawAnd he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
Exodus
LawNow therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
Genesis
LawAnd Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanNotwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahNevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:
John
Gospels / JohnFor the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWoe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
Micah
Minor ProphetsThou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
Psalms
PoetryOh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
Job
WisdomAnd said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.