It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
Leviticus
Law / MosesBut he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThe gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?
1 Chronicles
History / EzraBut Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
Acts
History / LukeAnd thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.
Exodus
LawThy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsThey are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThat he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
Luke
GospelsAnd he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
Genesis
LawAnd he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
1 Kings
HistoryAnd they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
Mark
GospelsEsaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.
Acts
HistoryWas he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.
2 Samuel
HistoryThou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAll the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.
Numbers
LawAnd ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John
GospelsHe that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
Psalms
PoetryBut when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
John
Gospels / JohnThe pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielBut the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.