They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Job
Wisdom / JobThese be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.
2 Samuel
HistoryHow long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersA righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
John
Gospels / JohnNo man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanArise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
Matthew
GospelsMoreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
Leviticus
Law / MosesCursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
LawWe remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
Numbers
Law / MosesThirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
Genesis
LawAnd he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Mark
GospelsHappy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
Psalms
PoetryFor thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
Leviticus
LawAnd Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:
Joshua
History / JoshuaThey that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSon of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
1 Samuel
HistorySo it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.