Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
Numbers
LawAs the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
John
Gospels / JohnHer filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsLet them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.
Nehemiah
HistoryYe are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Matthew
GospelsThou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.
Genesis
LawAnd he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahI thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAfter my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
Job
Wisdom / JobThus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
2 Samuel
HistoryAsk thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.
1 Samuel
HistoryThey clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBeside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
Amos
Minor ProphetsFor now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
Exodus
Law / MosesEdom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
John
GospelsFor while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?