For 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.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart.
Luke
GospelsAnd his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
1 Samuel
HistoryThen the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.
1 Samuel
HistoryThus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.
Exodus
LawWhen thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:
1 Kings
HistoryElkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraHe that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
Deuteronomy
LawAnd they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together: for the damsel's father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.
Judges
HistoryAnd the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?
Luke
Gospels / LukeWilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Job
WisdomHe took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
2 Kings
HistoryThus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.
2 Kings
HistoryHear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosPraise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
Genesis
LawThen king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.