For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require it;
Joshua
HistoryAnd the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
Jonah
Minor Prophets / JonahYour fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
John
GospelsAnd here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.
Acts
History / LukeFor Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
Esther
HistoryAnd Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThen hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.
1 Kings
HistoryThe ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Psalms
PoetryMine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,
Exodus
LawAnd her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd Rephah was his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraTherefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesSo the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulFor if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThen answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?
Matthew
GospelsAnd it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraHe that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThose that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.