For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the Philistines yet again spread themselves abroad in the valley.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraNeither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
Job
WisdomThat this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
Esther
History / MordecaiNeither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
Leviticus
Law / MosesWhen God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.
Acts
History / LukeAnd it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelHe hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelAnd thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.
Exodus
LawAfter him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house.
Nehemiah
HistoryIn the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonIs it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsYe shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesBe not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
2 Kings
HistoryTherefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
John
Gospels / JohnAs the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Psalms
PoetryThe desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonSalute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.