As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.
Leviticus
Law / MosesNow therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
Esther
HistoryAnd the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Genesis
Law / MosesThese things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Revelation
ApocalypticAnd I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahSo he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.
1 Kings
HistoryThen said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
John
GospelsAnd Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWhoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
Proverbs
WisdomTherefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosI considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Daniel
Major Prophets / DanielAnd Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
Exodus
LawAnd again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.