The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsThus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
Judges
HistoryBut turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Psalms
PoetryBut their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBehold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;
1 Kings
HistoryHide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.
Zephaniah
Minor ProphetsThe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTruly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThe full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
Proverbs
WisdomThen Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
Joshua
HistoryOr if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnBut the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
2 Kings
HistoryBehold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsAnd the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.