Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBehold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelSo his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
Judges
HistoryAll flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
Job
Wisdom / JobO that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsOn the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon, did offer:
Numbers
Law / MosesFor when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThere are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonOh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
Job
WisdomI was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahTherefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.
Mark
GospelsFor who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.
1 Samuel
HistoryHath not my hand made all these things?
Acts
History / LukeA man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
Proverbs
WisdomIf we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
Job
WisdomAnd he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.
Genesis
LawAnd this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.