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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These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
Numbers
Law / MosesFor God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
Job
Wisdom / JobFor my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAgain the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
Acts
History / LukeThere is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
2 Chronicles
HistoryIn the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence.
Esther
History / MordecaiMoreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahFor the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Exodus
LawWhen he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
Genesis
Law / MosesSon of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThere was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Job
WisdomSo the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
1 Samuel
HistoryFor the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
1 Samuel
HistoryBow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.