Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaIf any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesWherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
2 Samuel
HistoryBut Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
Luke
GospelsWhen one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanI will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord.
Acts
HistoryThe sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
Genesis
Law / MosesRemember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
Psalms
PoetryBlessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
1 Kings
HistoryThen said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBehold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
James
General EpistlesNow therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;
Genesis
LawThen shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBe still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsMy substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Psalms
PoetryFor scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAdonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahHearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: