Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.
Esther
HistoryFrom thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,
Numbers
Law / MosesLead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersBut the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
James
General Epistles / JamesAnd the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.
Luke
GospelsAnd he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
Mark
GospelsAnd thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.
Acts
History / LukeAnd I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office.
Exodus
LawAnd Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
Numbers
Law / MosesBut the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.
Ezra
HistoryBut I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThis is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
John
GospelsAnd it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
Acts
HistoryAnd he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsThen she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.
Ruth
HistoryAnd she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaFor it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and seven priests' garments.