Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAmong all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
Judges
History / SamuelThou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.
Psalms
PoetryDeep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Mark
GospelsSeven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
Exodus
Law / MosesBut when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
Mark
Gospels / MarkAnd it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,
Judges
HistorySo they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesI am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
John
GospelsAnd to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahThus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsThat men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
Psalms
PoetryHe that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
John
Gospels / JohnWatch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
1 Corinthians
Pauline Epistles / PaulBut some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.
John
Gospels / JohnAnd when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:
Exodus
LawAnd when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
2 Samuel
HistorySibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,