Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
Exodus
Law / MosesThus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Haggai
Minor Prophets / HaggaiSo Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
Genesis
Law / MosesThen the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.
Luke
Gospels / LukeBut as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
1 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesNicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
John
GospelsAnd supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;
John
Gospels / JohnAnd when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
Joshua
History / JoshuaThey also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
Psalms
PoetryAnd thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Exodus
LawAnd now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Job
WisdomIs not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
Exodus
Law / MosesWhosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesThis is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
Job
WisdomThen took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahWho giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
Leviticus
Law / MosesFor thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahAlso, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsFor Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
Joshua
HistoryThen shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.