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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For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
Numbers
LawAnd if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house.
2 Samuel
HistoryJerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsO my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
Hebrews
General EpistlesDid I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
Leviticus
Law / MosesGo and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahNeither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Luke
GospelsAmmiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for God blessed him.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
Numbers
LawAnd the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahPersecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAt what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAlso they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand.