Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIs Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsYet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Job
Wisdom / JobThe eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersIt was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Hebrews
General EpistlesNow there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
Mark
GospelsAnd when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!
Matthew
GospelsNot because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
2 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?
Mark
GospelsSon of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanI have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
Exodus
Law / MosesThou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNeither 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
History / JeremiahIs this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahOnly they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesBeware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
Exodus
Law / MosesThou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahBeloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.