They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsBetter is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelCan a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
Amos
Minor ProphetsAnd testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
Nehemiah
HistoryThus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAs the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.
Daniel
Major ProphetsThou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Matthew
GospelsWho shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThen we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.
Deuteronomy
LawI hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Amos
Minor ProphetsAlso the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
2 Samuel
HistoryHilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
Numbers
Law / MosesThese are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
Leviticus
LawThe rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Proverbs
WisdomAnd the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Luke
GospelsAnd the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.