I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
Psalms
PoetryAnd Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.
2 Chronicles
HistorySo they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahBut it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
Genesis
Law / MosesThe blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Matthew
GospelsSlay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAnd there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesIf the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAt that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
1 Kings
HistoryHe that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
Proverbs
WisdomHath not my hand made all these things?
Acts
History / LukeHowbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesNow Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
John
Gospels / JohnOut of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
Job
WisdomAnd the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.
2 Chronicles
HistoryNeither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.