A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsYet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThe ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus
LawAnd Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThe sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonHe cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
Psalms
PoetryWhen one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanTherefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
Joshua
History / JoshuaBrethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the border went up to Beth-hogla, and passed along by the north of Beth-arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
Exodus
LawAnd they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAfter him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahThose that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
LawSince the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahLest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
Luke
GospelsFor who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?