It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsOn the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, offered:
Numbers
Law / MosesI will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms
PoetryAnd Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
Psalms
PoetryConsider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonBe not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomI have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesShe hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThe daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
Numbers
LawAre ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
Acts
History / LukeO LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsIf he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
1 Kings
HistoryFor while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsAnd Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.