The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsMoreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
Ruth
HistoryMy defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
Psalms
PoetryHe gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThey have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThe Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Luke
GospelsBut thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHe made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
Judges
HistorySo Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king's table; and was lame on both his feet.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
1 Chronicles
HistoryOf Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.
Judges
HistoryThus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
1 Kings
HistorySeeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?