Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraIf ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God:
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThere was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.
Joshua
History / JoshuaWhen Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
Genesis
LawBut Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.
2 Samuel
HistoryAs they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.
Matthew
GospelsThen touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhen the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHe said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsOh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
Job
WisdomThe beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.
Genesis
Law / MosesFrom the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
Deuteronomy
LawThe burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiThe word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThese were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Psalms
PoetryAnd entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.