For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanBut I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahNow Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:
Numbers
Law / MosesTherefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Jonah
Minor ProphetsAnd withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesIt is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
Luke
GospelsTherefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahIt is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
Job
WisdomCursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
LawWhich long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Job
Wisdom / JobThe archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
Genesis
LawTherefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
Genesis
Law / MosesGo ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.
John
GospelsNow therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulLest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
Proverbs
WisdomBrought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,
2 Samuel
HistoryAll they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
Joshua
HistoryAnd they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.
Acts
History / LukeOh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!