If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,
Exodus
Law / MosesYea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHowbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsOne young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesHe rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.
Hebrews
General EpistlesThey send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
John
GospelsWhich is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
Exodus
LawPraise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.
Psalms
PoetryAnd in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
2 Kings
History / JeremiahTerrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
Job
WisdomFor I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Luke
Gospels / LukeTherefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.
1 Chronicles
HistoryYe shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Leviticus
LawAnd, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:
Leviticus
LawThe sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!