The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
Numbers
LawSo built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?
Mark
Gospels / MarkThou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTerrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
Genesis
Law / MosesI wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraSo I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThe princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.
Psalms
PoetryAnd when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSaying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.
Luke
GospelsThen shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Luke
GospelsTo the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsJediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraTen cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.
Exodus
LawBut now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Job
Wisdom / JobBut these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.
Joshua
HistoryBut they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous: