They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
Job
Wisdom / JobAlso twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
Ezra
History / EzraBut the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBehold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraDelight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHow shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesWherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
Psalms
PoetryAnd his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Genesis
LawThou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThe four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
2 Kings
HistoryHadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesBecause ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
Exodus
LawAnd the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
Genesis
Law / MosesIf the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
Ezra
History / EzraHe loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
2 Kings
HistoryWoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.