Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him. Farewell.
Acts
HistoryThe sons of Anah; Dishon. And the sons of Dishon; Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.
John
Gospels / JohnFifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
Deuteronomy
LawI will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahSeven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesHereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
1 John
General EpistlesAnd the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
Luke
GospelsAnd he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:
Mark
GospelsShe hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAs the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Numbers
LawA wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulEven as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
Philippians
Pauline Epistles / PaulNot for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
Job
Wisdom / JobHow that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.