Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesNow in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
Genesis
LawThat he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanHe becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
Numbers
LawAnd Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Genesis
LawNow therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
Ezra
HistoryCome up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThe great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesLet all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
Psalms
PoetryAnd deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnShe seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
Genesis
LawOr if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.
Leviticus
LawFor thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsYea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsHowl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.