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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Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?
John
Gospels / JohnAnd they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?
Judges
History / SamuelI will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsTheir quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsMine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.
Zechariah
Minor Prophets / ZechariahBut God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesIf the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTurn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahIn thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielEven the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd when all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
Genesis
Law / MosesPrinces are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThen Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
Judges
HistoryIf so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
1 Peter
General EpistlesBehold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD'S, and he will give you into our hands.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
Numbers
LawThen Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.
Leviticus
LawBut seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.