In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
Genesis
Law / MosesBetter is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomSeraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, was the ruler of the house of God.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahNow therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAgain, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
Psalms
PoetryTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsProvide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThey said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
Micah
Minor ProphetsThe children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,
Nehemiah
HistoryYe shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhen I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesSo they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelFor if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.
Luke
Gospels / LukeOf the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah.
Ezra
History / EzraShall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Micah
Minor ProphetsNevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.