Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
Genesis
Law / MosesSo they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.
Judges
HistoryAnd Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
Genesis
LawAnd David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded.
2 Samuel
HistoryThe portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave.
Joshua
HistoryWhen thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
Psalms
PoetryFor your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAll the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWho is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,
Ezra
History / EzraAnd the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanEvery man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.
Matthew
GospelsThe Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought them.
Exodus
LawAnd when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous: