As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
Esther
HistoryI am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Exodus
LawThen thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Mark
GospelsAnd 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
Gospels / MarkFor as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewLet the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
James
General EpistlesAnd they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
Acts
HistoryFor he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersArab, and Dumah, and Eshean,
Joshua
HistoryBe ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
Joel
Minor ProphetsBut if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsMoreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesWho, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
Acts
HistoryThese shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThe likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
Deuteronomy
LawSaying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulDamascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.