And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus
LawFor I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Genesis
Law / MosesIt is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
Job
WisdomBut Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahArise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it.
Ezra
HistoryFor I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Psalms
PoetryFor these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
John
Gospels / JohnMy heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersI went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
Ruth
HistoryAnd they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnIf thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonHowbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, I-chabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD'S priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
1 Samuel
HistoryShall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
Psalms
PoetryO LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
Psalms
PoetryFor her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahHereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John
General EpistlesAnd the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal: and Merib-baal begat Micah.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
Amos
Minor Prophets / AmosIn the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.