He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsBut if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.
Acts
HistoryMy soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Beth-el, and in their villages,
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahNow Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelCome, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
Exodus
LawIn his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.
Acts
HistoryBut a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
Titus
Pauline EpistlesBut after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
Ezra
HistoryAnd have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
2 Kings
HistoryHe that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
Proverbs
WisdomDraw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
Psalms
PoetryThey say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewHe gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesFor brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahNeither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.
Numbers
LawShall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
Habakkuk
Minor ProphetsAnd I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.