And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;
Genesis
LawAnd ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
Numbers
LawAnd of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
Job
WisdomAnd I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Acts
History / LukeHe measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielThou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
Psalms
PoetryFor he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThen the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
Exodus
LawIn the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
Acts
HistoryRivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIf it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
1 Peter
General Epistles / PeterAnd Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
1 Chronicles
HistoryBut if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
James
General Epistles / JamesThey are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
Leviticus
LawAnd he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,
Mark
Gospels / MarkDavid therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer.