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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Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBehold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.
Job
WisdomGod understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne:
Matthew
GospelsBlind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnSurely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Psalms
PoetryFor I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
Numbers
LawAlso, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThen Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraBut all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.
Joshua
History / JoshuaSeeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
Acts
HistoryThey shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
Joel
Minor ProphetsJesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
Numbers
LawThe eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
Joshua
HistoryThe border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.
Joshua
HistoryAnd Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?