Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
John
GospelsAs long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
Leviticus
Law / MosesShammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
1 Chronicles
HistoryBehold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Amos
Minor ProphetsMy God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
Nehemiah
HistoryLet a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
Proverbs
Wisdom / Solomon(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
Acts
History / LukeThen let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
Matthew
GospelsAnd when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went down unto Caesarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment seat commanded Paul to be brought.
Acts
HistoryAnd when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also.
1 Samuel
HistoryNow Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThen David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between them:
1 Samuel
HistoryA scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
Proverbs
WisdomTake great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsTo crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Acts
HistoryAnd the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielHow forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Job
Wisdom / JobThat she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:
Genesis
LawAnd when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.