Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:
Numbers
Law / MosesHear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.
Exodus
LawHath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
Exodus
LawFor the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersSend me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
2 Chronicles
HistoryBe strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.
Joshua
HistoryAnd all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
Exodus
Law / MosesLest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonMy times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersDo not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
Matthew
GospelsTherefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi,
1 Chronicles
HistoryAnd they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.
Exodus
Law / MosesFor I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
Psalms
PoetryTake his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonNow Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
Genesis
LawMoreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
Exodus
LawAgain, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.