Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
Numbers
LawLet every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
Luke
GospelsAnd Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
Numbers
LawLet them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
Psalms
PoetryAll the saints salute you.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesAnd being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
Matthew
GospelsAnd the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Exodus
Law / MosesO LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThen stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
Psalms
PoetryAnd all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersRighteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
Numbers
Law / MosesEven so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
Mark
Gospels / MarkLikewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterBut if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,
Numbers
LawAnd he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThere went with us also certain of the disciples of Caesarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge.
Acts
HistoryI have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.