The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
Malachi
Minor Prophets / MalachiThink not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew
GospelsPut away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Proverbs
WisdomThe legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThen thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
Job
WisdomUntil I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus
LawThen said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
John
GospelsYour remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Job
WisdomAnd he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
Genesis
LawThree bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother.
Mark
GospelsLet not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
Psalms
PoetryOf their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.
Leviticus
LawHe disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Job
Wisdom / JobSo when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.
John
Gospels / JohnThen said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThis is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
Numbers
LawFor by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Matthew
GospelsAs the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Solomon's Song
PoetryAnd the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.