And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonJudge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
John
Gospels / JohnTherefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
2 Samuel
HistoryFor the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true.
John
GospelsHe spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that is before Jokneam;
Joshua
HistoryAnd the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Acts
History / LukeAnd Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
Genesis
LawThat I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
Acts
History / LukeSo then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesSave that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBecause they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTherefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThey shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
Mark
GospelsNeither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?