Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
Exodus
Law / MosesCome, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
Genesis
LawO thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersHe answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewLORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersEven as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Jude
General EpistlesAnd what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
John
GospelsThen were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.
Acts
HistoryAnd the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
Exodus
Law / MosesMoreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraLift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTake thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBut he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
1 John
General EpistlesAnd of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIf they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraTherefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
Psalms
PoetrySeeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
Acts
History / LukeBut as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.