Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
Proverbs
WisdomMore to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBelshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
Daniel
Major ProphetsOnly the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
Deuteronomy
LawI have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John
Gospels / JohnNow if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAnd he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?
Genesis
LawIn that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanGreat is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
Psalms
PoetryWhen the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
Matthew
GospelsYea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Proverbs
WisdomTake the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.
Numbers
LawMoreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
Exodus
Law / MosesWhy was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
John
Gospels / JohnGavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
Job
WisdomWrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThat the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: