It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.
Exodus
LawAnd the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Numbers
Law / MosesThe children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and three.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
Psalms
PoetryBut draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
2 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesNow Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
Judges
HistoryAnd I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
Genesis
LawFor who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThen wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.