The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonEven those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
Ezra
History / EzraThe LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
Ruth
HistoryFor he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesFor as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2 Peter
General EpistlesWith him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
Numbers
Law / MosesIf by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosAnd Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el.
Genesis
Law / MosesTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielIn whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersTo whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahHe is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanLest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
Deuteronomy
LawThen ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahOf Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
Numbers
LawAnd she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.
Genesis
Law / MosesIt is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersO keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
Psalms
PoetryBecause David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.