It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
1 Peter
General EpistlesAnd, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet also came in.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
Genesis
LawAnd he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
2 Samuel
HistoryThus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielWhereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
Genesis
LawNow when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
Ruth
History / SamuelWho is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
Micah
Minor ProphetsWe then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulThat thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra
History / EzraAnd they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.
Acts
HistoryAnd God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Genesis
Law / MosesOne basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahArtaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.
Ezra
HistoryAnd saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraCrying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
Acts
HistoryAnd I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaLachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
Joshua
History / JoshuaSurely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass on the day when the LORD spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt,
Exodus
LawBeside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;