It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
John
Gospels / JohnHappy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Psalms
PoetryBy the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHe gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIt shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire.
Leviticus
LawAnd Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThey looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
Numbers
Law / MosesIf I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhen I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
Luke
GospelsWho shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.
Ruth
History / SamuelAnd Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
Leviticus
LawIf a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThese are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
Numbers
LawLet us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulIn that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.