Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
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And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd these were they which went up also from Tel-melah, Tel-haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the curious girdle of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
Proverbs
WisdomAnd David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.
1 Samuel
HistoryWhere no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFrom thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
Deuteronomy
LawThe sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
Acts
HistoryTremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahTo reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Psalms
PoetryFor whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAll these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
Genesis
LawFor God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonHave they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
Judges
HistoryWhen thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;
Deuteronomy
LawThe wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
Luke
GospelsBut the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.