Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWhich shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Job
Wisdom / JobFear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThere is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
Exodus
LawNow it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWithhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWhen they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhen the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Acts
HistoryThe eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
1 Chronicles
HistoryThen said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
John
Gospels / JohnThe LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
Psalms
PoetryOf every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
Numbers
LawThe children of Hagab, the children of Shalmai, the children of Hanan,
Ezra
History / EzraI will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:
Genesis
Law / MosesSo Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.
Exodus
Law / MosesThe woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
John
GospelsThat which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesLift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNot boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,