A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonThe things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
Job
Wisdom / JobThus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahI thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar.
Leviticus
LawThese things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
Proverbs
WisdomBehold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
Job
WisdomAnd the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBecause thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
Deuteronomy
LawLet thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahNow in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
Esther
HistoryWill he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
Job
WisdomHe that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBehold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / Isaiah(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
Genesis
LawAnd they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBehold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThis is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.
John
GospelsYour words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?