It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
Acts
HistoryA light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
Luke
Gospels / LukeWoe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Micah
Minor ProphetsFor if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesIn that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
Genesis
LawThus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
Matthew
GospelsChrist is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesThe LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
Zechariah
Minor ProphetsAnd from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsIn the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAccording to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.
Numbers
LawOf fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsGive unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts.
Psalms
PoetryLearn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd he must needs go through Samaria.
John
Gospels / JohnFor yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahThe children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.
Ezra
History / EzraThey were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.