Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he wrote a letter after this manner:
Acts
History / LukeBehold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsWhose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahThus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
2 Chronicles
HistoryTeach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
Psalms
PoetryAnd as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanFor through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahFor our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Genesis
Law / MosesBoth for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
Leviticus
LawBehold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
Acts
HistoryI was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
Psalms
PoetryHear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
Matthew
GospelsLo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
Exodus
LawAnd the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThen said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
Esther
History / MordecaiFor such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.