Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
Law / MosesThou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel's father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them.
Judges
HistoryAnd he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
Genesis
LawAnd it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,
Joshua
HistoryAnd said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Matthew
GospelsFor from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiAnd it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsLibnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
Joshua
HistoryAnd the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
Genesis
Law / MosesHast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
Job
Wisdom / JobIn the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Psalms
PoetryBut the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
2 Peter
General EpistlesShall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsAnd the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnI gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
Numbers
LawAnd changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.