The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.
Judges
HistoryBehold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
Psalms
PoetryWho art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,
Joshua
HistoryAnd Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:
Leviticus
LawAnd God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
Genesis
LawAccording to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesThey shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielOnly the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesA land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
Deuteronomy
LawI will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraYe hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?
Luke
GospelsWe are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms
PoetryHe is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesBrethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
Philippians
Pauline EpistlesAnd they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?
Matthew
GospelsAnd when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships.