For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
Psalms
PoetryThe wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.
Acts
HistoryAnd they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
Numbers
LawAnd the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
Luke
Gospels / LukePaul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThe king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
Genesis
Law / MosesBut if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath shewed me:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhat? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesYea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomHow much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Job
WisdomThe LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets(Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
Numbers
Law / MosesThe way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonBut they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
Numbers
Law / MosesNeither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.