Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Job
WisdomOne kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers
LawBut the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
Genesis
LawThese are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownThen Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsConsider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider it.
Haggai
Minor ProphetsI communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonMany sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,
Acts
History / LukeAnd David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he went to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
Genesis
Law / MosesHe was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
1 Samuel
HistoryWhen he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.
Esther
History / MordecaiWho among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThrough the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanA fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.
Proverbs
WisdomThe sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWhen he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.