He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
Deuteronomy
LawAnd the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThey sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
Hosea
Minor ProphetsTherefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonHowl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
2 Kings
HistoryThese be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesAlso the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
2 Chronicles
History / EzraThen I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsNow when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMoreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
Acts
History / LukeThey cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
Job
Wisdom / JobFor thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersDo not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
Genesis
LawThe young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
Job
WisdomThou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?