For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Hosea
Minor ProphetsAnd say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.
Leviticus
LawUzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite,
1 Chronicles
HistoryBunni, Azgad, Bebai,
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest it not:
1 Kings
HistoryAnd the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd it went out to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
Joshua
HistoryAnd when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem.
Luke
GospelsI have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD.
Leviticus
LawThe works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
Leviticus
LawThat it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielNow it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.
Luke
GospelsI beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.
Matthew
GospelsAnd great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.
Matthew
GospelsLuke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
Colossians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.