When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
Luke
GospelsFor thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
Exodus
Law / MosesThese ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
Acts
HistoryIt is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
John
GospelsAnd certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?
Luke
Gospels / LukeIf thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.
2 Samuel
HistoryTheir idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis
Law / MosesBut thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewWhere the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
2 Samuel
HistoryYe shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
LawFor thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.
2 Samuel
HistoryThrough thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.