As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
Genesis
LawAnd, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.
Judges
History / SamuelTherefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
Leviticus
Law / MosesRemove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
Psalms
PoetryFor there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
Acts
HistoryFor Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThe foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
Luke
GospelsA man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesHear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Acts
HistoryKnow ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
Deuteronomy
LawIf I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
John
Gospels / JohnYet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
Esther
History / MordecaiTherefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;