It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
Luke
Gospels / LukeThere dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahAnd he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus
LawHis bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
Job
WisdomA soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.
Exodus
LawAnd as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,
Mark
Gospels / MarkFor Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
Joshua
HistoryCall together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThen they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThen Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
2 Kings
HistoryBow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonLo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
Job
WisdomAnd thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy.
Exodus
LawAnd Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore unto him, Art not thou also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I am not.
John
Gospels / JohnThe desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Proverbs
WisdomZanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beer-sheba unto the valley of Hinnom.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.