The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Ephesians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac:
Genesis
LawHe that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs
WisdomForbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesCursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy
LawDraw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
Psalms
PoetryJesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
John
GospelsAnd Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.
Exodus
LawAnd upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThe wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThe words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomI will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesI will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.
Amos
Minor ProphetsBe sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
1 Peter
General EpistlesBut if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath shewed me:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd David perceived that the LORD had confirmed him king over Israel, for his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his people Israel.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
Numbers
LawFor they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
1 Thessalonians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof: