Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
Psalms
PoetryBehold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Job
WisdomI beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulYe shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;
Numbers
LawAnd that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
Leviticus
LawAnd Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon:
Judges
History / SamuelSheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHe causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesThey spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.
Daniel
Major ProphetsMoreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraIn the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
Acts
History / LukeThy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewGod came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukThose that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesThen came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?
Matthew
GospelsWhereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
Acts
HistoryAnd now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.