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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For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the sons of Ethan; Azariah.
1 Chronicles
HistoryTheir blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.
1 Kings
HistoryThus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Numbers
Law / MosesOnly with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersYe have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets(For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)
Acts
HistoryA man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
Proverbs
WisdomHe loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
Psalms
PoetryBoth riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
1 John
General EpistlesAnd lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
2 Kings
HistoryYe shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Genesis
LawWho can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Nahum
Minor ProphetsAnd thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelRender unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahBehold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded.