As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonHe sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
Psalms
PoetryDoth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
Job
WisdomAnd when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.
Luke
GospelsThat thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Genesis
LawAnd the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
Deuteronomy
LawThy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
2 Timothy
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsBut if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
Numbers
Law / MosesOf a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesBut if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahHow much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelWhen he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms
PoetryThe wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.