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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And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.
Genesis
Law / MosesNow Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
Mark
GospelsAnd when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahIf the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.
Genesis
LawAnd the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.
Judges
History / SamuelI have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaWhy askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
1 Samuel
HistoryJesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
John
Gospels / JohnYet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Proverbs
WisdomAnd Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelA man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
Titus
Pauline EpistlesCome, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.
Judges
HistoryFor great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThis is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.