The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?
2 Samuel
HistoryAnd king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahThe way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Joel
Minor Prophets / JoelAnd commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
2 Chronicles
HistoryThen Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him.
Mark
GospelsThe Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsWe will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be our's.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Romans
Pauline EpistlesI have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.
2 Samuel
HistoryThen shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielFor riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonFor as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
Obadiah
Minor Prophets / ObadiahEphraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
Hosea
Minor Prophets / HoseaAnd Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
Exodus
LawThat which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.
Leviticus
LawLet him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHeal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewMy glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
Galatians
Pauline Epistles / PaulWho is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonInsomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.