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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For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
Mark
GospelsMy flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
2 Kings
HistoryBut the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
Luke
GospelsAnd the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThe bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBehold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIn his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahMy servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
Numbers
Law / MosesI have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsSo Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and saw not the king's face.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHe shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesMy manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
Acts
HistoryFor there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHe that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
Proverbs
WisdomThe heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, by a statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded.
Leviticus
LawAnd David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:
Exodus
LawAnd the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: