Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
Judges
HistoryWherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
Genesis
LawThen he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
Genesis
LawAnd Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahFor ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Ephesians
Pauline EpistlesAnd Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them.
Judges
HistoryHe shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
Psalms
PoetryAnd while they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.
Esther
HistoryYe have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielSaid unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him:
Luke
GospelsTo shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersNow when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
Joshua
HistoryBut I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
Genesis
LawAnd Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis
Law / MosesYet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
Job
WisdomNevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
Joshua
HistoryAnd should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Mark
GospelsAnd the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
Genesis
Law / MosesThat in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: