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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As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahBut the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
2 Kings
HistoryWhy hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanGirded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
Genesis
LawAnd he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
1 Samuel
HistoryThese also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryYe see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesFather, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
John
GospelsWhoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
Numbers
LawAnd with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
Acts
HistoryAnd in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnBut now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAgain there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
Job
WisdomFrom twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
Numbers
LawThat saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your God.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Luke
GospelsNow therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.