If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Matthew
GospelsAnd his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
Exodus
LawNeither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
2 Kings
HistoryThe labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonIf therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
Hebrews
General EpistlesMany daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHath not my hand made all these things?
Acts
History / LukeAnd I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelNow I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulNow the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsMoreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulLo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
Job
WisdomSurely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
2 Chronicles
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 he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
2 Kings
HistoryThou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.