Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThey proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
Genesis
LawAnd when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTo the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBehold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
Exodus
Law / MosesBehold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelBut on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.
Numbers
LawWho have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHow amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
Psalms
PoetryThe preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
Proverbs
WisdomA sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
Luke
GospelsAnd it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.
Exodus
LawHis flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:
Job
WisdomNow when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.
Luke
Gospels / LukeOf the sons also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.
Ezra
History / EzraThere be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHe stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Habakkuk
Minor Prophets / HabakkukAnd Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
Proverbs
WisdomVerily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
Matthew
GospelsAnd he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,