When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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He shall break also the images of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
Job
WisdomAnd they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.
Genesis
LawBinding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.
Genesis
LawThou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Exodus
Law / MosesI will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.
Psalms
PoetryAgain, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
Matthew
GospelsAnd when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
Luke
GospelsAnd the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraWhich thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.
Ezra
HistoryAnd he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
Exodus
Law / MosesHear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
Micah
Minor Prophets / MicahFurthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Hebrews
General Epistles / UnknownAnd after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said,
Luke
GospelsI called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersO Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.