Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
Judges
History / SamuelThy name, O LORD, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations.
Psalms
PoetryAnd I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp.
Leviticus
LawAre ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
Mark
Gospels / MarkBut I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewO spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraI commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesWithout me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
John
GospelsTherefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHe hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards,
Leviticus
LawAnd when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD:
Leviticus
Law / MosesLORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
Judges
HistoryAnd it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;
Joshua
HistoryTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.