He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
Genesis
LawO Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
Joshua
HistoryO that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job
Wisdom / JobBehold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesNeither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSo he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he said unto them, In what place soever ye enter into an house, there abide till ye depart from that place.
Mark
GospelsAnd they went up, and pitched in Kirjath-jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjath-jearim.
Judges
HistoryAnd Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAbram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
Genesis
LawAnd God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
Exodus
Law / MosesDo ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraA gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
Job
WisdomI will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryAnd all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' hair.
Exodus
Law / MosesMoreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.