And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewSo Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king's gate.
Esther
HistoryAnd I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
Judges
HistoryLie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
Deuteronomy
LawTherefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHenoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.
Genesis
LawThe eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBut with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewBut when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth.
2 Samuel
HistoryIt is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielO God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
Psalms
PoetryThis man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
Luke
GospelsAnd set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.
Numbers
LawAnd wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
Mark
GospelsThine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.