When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.
Matthew
GospelsAnd for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
Numbers
LawBut the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
Leviticus
LawThen the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.
Leviticus
LawSo the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Beth-aven.
1 Samuel
HistoryNeither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.
Judges
HistoryAnd there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
Law / MosesTherefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job
WisdomThen said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThe blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Genesis
LawAnd the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBehold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Job
WisdomAnd David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThe prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnWe have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.