Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
Joshua
HistoryAnd Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThen the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
John
GospelsAnd kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.
Exodus
LawI will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
Proverbs
WisdomThey are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAn Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:
Deuteronomy
LawWhich also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTherefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBeing defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTherefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe.
Ruth
HistorySo I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
1 Kings
HistoryMoreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
Exodus
LawAll the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.