Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahWho can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.
Ruth
History / SamuelFor an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.
Judges
History / SamuelWho said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
Deuteronomy
LawShall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
Job
WisdomThen Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.
Genesis
LawBut when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,
Acts
History / LukeAnd they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this also.
Exodus
LawAnd wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
Mark
Gospels / MarkWhen I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSo that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
Acts
HistoryEven to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWhat shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?
Psalms
PoetryHe gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
Psalms
PoetryThe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
Esther
History / MordecaiWho, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterNow the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.