As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms
PoetryAnd the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
1 Chronicles
HistoryYe ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
Ezra
HistoryBut the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThis is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
Numbers
LawI said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
Psalms
PoetrySo they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahFor he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
Exodus
LawAnd Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis
LawSaul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,
1 Samuel
HistoryO thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsHearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
Psalms
PoetryFor if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThe sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Proverbs
WisdomSo he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahNevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.