The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
Psalms
PoetryAnd the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
Genesis
LawHow oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
Psalms
PoetryAnd now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
2 John
General EpistlesLORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFrom Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:
Joshua
History / JoshuaAgain, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Hebrews
General EpistlesObserve thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
Luke
GospelsAnd, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWho appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.
Luke
GospelsAnd with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.
Numbers
LawGather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersFor we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
2 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulAll the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
Exodus
Law / MosesMoreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
2 Chronicles
HistoryFor riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonCome to Beth-el, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
Amos
Minor ProphetsFor as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
Luke
GospelsThen Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsI understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
Psalms
PoetryThen said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.