A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryIn thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
Psalms
PoetryThey shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSo that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
2 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.
Mark
Gospels / MarkRighteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
Luke
GospelsThy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
Judges
History / SamuelHis disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?
John
GospelsWhat advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAll the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThere shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsA man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.