Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
2 Kings
HistoryI will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahAnd ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
Leviticus
LawAs in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Zephaniah
Minor Prophets / ZephaniahSpeaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesAnd the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThey have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the LORD, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide.
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahHast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
Numbers
LawAnd when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
Matthew
GospelsFor he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersWrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Proverbs
WisdomAnd when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?
Mark
GospelsAnd when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went down unto Caesarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment seat commanded Paul to be brought.
Acts
History / LukeThe two and twentieth to Giddalti, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.
Acts
History / LukeWho came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;