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 Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraSlay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Psalms
PoetryThus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsUnto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
Psalms
PoetryThou shalt make thee no molten gods.
Exodus
LawAnd I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Acts
HistoryThen they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelOf the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?
Luke
GospelsAnd Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
1 Chronicles
HistoryBehold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIshmerai also, and Jezliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThen Job answered and said,
Job
WisdomRemove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.
Acts
History / LukeBut Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.
Acts
History / LukeAnd when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.
John
GospelsWhich knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
Acts
HistoryAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers
LawAnd Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelHe hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
2 Kings
HistoryHe that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.